Help IH: Ask me anything about cloud services and hosting, especially Azure
Hello Indie Hackers!
I am Maurice Kleiberg and I am working as a Cloud Engineer for a Multi-Cloud consultancy company in The Netherlands. For the last 4/5 years, I've been working with a big variety of different services provided by Azure.
I've seen a lot of services from IaaS to Serverless. I am also familiar with the hosting and orchestration of Docker containers and of course a big fan of using Managed Services from the Cloud Provider.
I've seen a lot of questions by customers over these years and I want to share this knowledge back to the community, because of this an open Ask Me Anything post!
Do you have any questions regarding running applications on the cloud, please ask it here!
Do you use a Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), let me know which is your favorite and especially why?
Hi Maurice,
How would you recommend running containers using docker-compose in Azure? Docker-Compose support is still in beta for app services, and didn't support managed identity the last time I tried to make use of it (without it talking to KeyVault is a bit of a pain). I'm not ready to dive into Kubernetes as the cost and complexity is a bit high, so I'm left with running all my app services as standalone container images.
You're correct. Azure App Services has docker-compose available but only in Public Preview. At this point the only fully supported solution would be to run this in a standalone App Service. Within my experience, 99% of the Public Preview will proceed to General Availability.
The App Services by default supports Managed Identity, I don't know how this will behave in combination with the docker-compose.
There is also the possibility to run this in Container Instances but sadly the Managed Identity is in Public Preview:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-managed-identity
My first question would be why you want to use docker-compose? Is it because the purpose of the containers is in the same lifecycle?
https://flashdrive.io seems a good alternative, let me know what you think about it!