/azure-container-apps

name: azure-container-apps
description: Expert knowledge for Azure Container Apps development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when configuring ACA auth, KEDA/Dapr scaling, CI/CD deployments, Java microservices, or GPU/AI workloads, and other Azure Container Apps related development tasks. Not for Azure App Service (use azure-app-service), Azure Functions (use azure-functions), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (use azure-kubernetes-service), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (use azure-redhat-openshift).
compatibility: Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.
metadata:
  generated_at: "2026-09-13"
  generator: "docs2skills/1.0.0"

Azure Container Apps Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Container Apps. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> **IMPORTANT for Agent**: Use the **Category Index** below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., `L35-L120`), use `read_file` with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., `[security.md](security.md)`), use `read_file` on the linked reference file

> **IMPORTANT for Agent**: If `metadata.generated_at` is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If `mcp_microsoftdocs` tools are not available, suggest the user install it: [Installation Guide](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp/blob/main/README.md)

This skill requires **network access** to fetch documentation content:

• **Preferred**: Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill`. Returns Markdown.
• **Fallback**: Use `fetch_webpage` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown`. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description | |----------|-------|-------------| | Troubleshooting | L37-L52 | Diagnosing and fixing common Container Apps issues: deploy/start/exit failures, health probes, image pulls, storage mounts, ports, OCI runtime errors, and using debug console/log tuning. | | Best Practices | L53-L59 | Deployment, cold-start, and runtime tuning guidance: blue-green rollouts, reducing scale-out latency, and optimizing Java memory usage in Azure Container Apps. | | Decision Making | L60-L81 | Guides for choosing Container Apps hosting, compute, GPUs, and billing models, plus migration and modernization paths from Functions, Heroku, Java/Spring/Tomcat, and organizing environments. | | Architecture & Design Patterns | L82-L87 | Architectures and patterns for Java microservices on Azure Container Apps, including Eureka HA clusters, AI-enabled PetClinic, and end-to-end microservice design best practices. | | Limits & Quotas | L88-L94 | Quotas, limits, and scaling caps for Container Apps, plus how they behave at those limits and how to request quota increases from Azure support. | | Security | L95-L133 | Securing Container Apps: auth (Entra, social, OIDC, mTLS, certs), secrets and identities, network controls (NSG, firewall, private endpoints), policies, and security best practices. | | Configuration | L134-L170 | Configuring Container Apps environments, networking, ingress, revisions, scaling (KEDA/Dapr/Functions), workload profiles, storage mounts, Java features, and ARM/YAML schemas. | | Integrations & Coding Patterns | L171-L194 | Patterns for connecting Container Apps to each other and Azure services, integrating Dapr/Spring/OpenTelemetry, and using code interpreter and dynamic session features. | | Deployment | L195-L203 | Deploying and automating Container Apps: CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Azure Pipelines, Docker Compose deployments, Arc-enabled Kubernetes, logging migration, and self-hosted runners/jobs. |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Use Container Apps debug console for in-place troubleshooting | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/container-debug-console | | Use dynamic log levels to troubleshoot Java apps on Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/java-dynamic-log-level | | Troubleshoot MCP server issues on Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/mcp-troubleshooting | | Diagnose container exit failures in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-container-create-failures | | Troubleshoot container start failures in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-container-start-failures | | Troubleshoot Azure Container Apps deployment failures | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-deployment-errors | | Troubleshoot health probe failures in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-health-probe-failures | | Diagnose and fix image pull failures in Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-image-pull-failures | | Resolve OCI runtime errors in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-open-container-initiative-errors | | Fix storage mount failures in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-storage-mount-failures | | Resolve target port misconfiguration in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshoot-target-port-settings | | Diagnose and fix issues in Azure Container Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/troubleshooting |

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