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Containers
premium
HTTP scale rule
An HTTP scale rule is an Azure Container Apps scaling rule that scales replicas based on concurrent HTTP requests.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: HTTP scale rule, http scale rule
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Maximum replicas
The maximum replicas setting is the upper bound that prevents an autoscaled workload from creating more replicas than the configured limit. Teams use it when teams need scale-out capacity but also need to protect budgets, downstream services, and quota. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for bounded scaling, predictable cost exposure, and safer dependency protection during traffic spikes instead of leaving the decision hidden in a portal setting, script, or deployment file. Treat it as production-ready only when the owner, dependencies, permission boundary, monitoring signal, and rollback evidence are clear.
Azure Container Apps scaling
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Maximum replicas, max replicas, maxReplicas, replica cap, replica ceiling, maximum replica count, Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Apps scaling
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Memory scale rule
A memory scale rule is a Container Apps scale rule that uses memory utilization to add or remove running replicas within configured limits. Teams use it when a container workload becomes memory-bound before HTTP traffic, CPU, or queue length fully explains pressure. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for pressure-based scaling for memory-sensitive services while keeping replica bounds visible instead of leaving the decision hidden in a portal setting, script, or deployment file. Treat it as production-ready only when the owner, dependencies, permission boundary, monitoring signal, and rollback evidence are clear.
Azure Container Apps scaling
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Memory scale rule, memory autoscale rule, KEDA memory trigger, Container Apps memory scale, memory utilization scale rule, KEDA memory rule, memory based scale rule, KEDA memory scaler, Container Apps memory scaling, Azure Container Apps and KEDA autoscaling, Azure Container Apps scaling
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Containers
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Container Apps
A serverless Azure service for running containerized apps and jobs without directly operating Kubernetes clusters.
Serverless containers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Apps
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Containers
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Container Apps workload profile
the Container Apps environment compute profile that controls resource size, scaling model, isolation, and billing behavior for deployed apps
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps job
A Container Apps resource for running scheduled, event-driven, or manual containerized tasks to completion.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
4 commands
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Container Apps managed environment
A Container Apps managed environment is the shared home where one or more Azure Container Apps and jobs run. It is not your container image or one app instance; it is the boundary around the runtime, networking, logging, certificates, Dapr settings, and workload profile capacity that those apps use. Teams choose an environment before creating.
Azure Container Apps
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Container Apps scale rule
A Container Apps scale rule tells Azure Container Apps when to run more or fewer replicas of an app revision. Instead of guessing capacity manually, you define a trigger such as HTTP concurrency, CPU, memory, Service Bus messages, Kafka lag, or another KEDA-supported event source. The rule works with minimum and maximum replica limits, so.
Azure Container Apps
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Containers
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Azure Container Registry
A managed private registry service for building, storing, and managing container images and OCI artifacts for container deployments.
Container images
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ACR
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Containers
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Container Apps custom domain
A custom hostname assigned to a Container App ingress endpoint.
Azure Container Apps
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Containers
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Container Apps environment variable
An environment variable passed into a Container Apps container.
Azure Container Apps
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Containers
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Container Apps ingress
The Container Apps setting that controls whether and how HTTP or TCP traffic reaches a container app.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps replica
a running instance of a Container Apps revision that is added or removed as Azure Container Apps scales the workload
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
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Containers
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Container Apps session
an isolated, short-lived execution environment from a Container Apps dynamic session pool, often used for sandboxed code or custom runtime tasks
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps traffic split
percentage-based Container Apps ingress routing that sends traffic to active revisions or labels for canary, blue-green, or A/B releases
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps certificate
A certificate used for TLS on a Container Apps custom domain.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
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Containers
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Container Apps exec
An interactive command execution feature for a running Container App replica.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps log stream
A live log stream for a Container App replica or revision.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
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Containers
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Container Apps revision
Microsoft Learn explains that a Container Apps revision is created at first deployment and whenever revision-scope settings change. Revision mode controls whether one or multiple revisions stay active, enabling traffic splitting, labels, rollbacks, and safer updates without changing the whole container app resource. in controlled production releases.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Container Apps revision, active-revision, container apps revision, container-app-environment, container-apps, container-apps-ingress, container-apps-revision, container-apps-traffic-split, container-image, container-image-digest, deployment-labels, deployment-slot, inactive-revision, keda
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Container Apps secret
Microsoft Learn describes Container Apps secrets as application-scoped values that can be stored directly or referenced from Azure Key Vault. Revisions can use them through environment variables, registry credentials, or scale rules, while managed identity controls access to Key Vault references. during application configuration and rotation.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Container Apps secret, app-service-app-setting, client-secret, container apps secret, container-apps, container-apps-environment-variable, container-apps-revision, container-apps-secret, container-registry, keda, key-vault, key-vault-access-policy, managed-identity, secret
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Storage
premium
Azure Container Storage
A cloud-based volume management, deployment, and orchestration service built natively for containers and integrated with Kubernetes persistent volumes.
Container storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACS for containers
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Compute
premium
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is Azure serverless compute for running code from triggers such as HTTP requests, queues, timers, events, and service integrations without managing servers.
Serverless compute
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Functions, Function App, serverless functions
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Containers
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Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service is Azure’s managed Kubernetes service for deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications while Azure manages much of the cluster control plane.
Managed Kubernetes
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: AKS, managed Kubernetes
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Web
field-manual-ready
Multi-container web app
A multi-container web app is an App Service workload made from multiple cooperating containers rather than one application image.
Azure App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Docker Compose web app, App Service multi-container, multi-container web app, App Service sidecar, Docker Compose App Service
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Developer Tools
premium
Azure Developer CLI
An open-source developer command-line tool that accelerates provisioning, deployment, pipeline setup, and monitoring for application resources on Azure.
Developer workflow
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: azd
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DevOps
premium
Azure DevOps organization
The top-level Azure DevOps Services container that connects related projects, users, repositories, pipelines, artifacts, permissions, and organization settings.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps org
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Storage
premium
Azure file share
An Azure file share is a managed cloud share hosted by Azure Files. It behaves like a network file share, but Microsoft runs the storage service instead of your team maintaining file servers, disks, operating systems, and failover.
Files, queues, and tables
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Files share
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DevOps
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Container image build
the build step that turns source, Dockerfile instructions, dependencies, and metadata into a container image stored in a registry
Deployment workflows
intermediate
5 commands
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Databases
premium
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
The native document database API of Azure Cosmos DB for JSON data, SQL-like queries, partitioning, indexing, and scalable request-unit throughput.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB NoSQL API, Azure Cosmos DB SQL API
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Storage
premium
Azure Files SMB
Azure Files SMB is the Azure Files capability for mounting managed file shares through the Server Message Block protocol. It helps Windows, app, and infrastructure teams move familiar mapped-drive and application share patterns to Azure without running and patching Windows file servers for common shared storage. You see it when Windows users need mapped drives, apps expect UNC paths, profile containers need shared storage, or branch offices need cloud-backed shares. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
SMB file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SMB Azure file shares, Azure Files SMB protocol
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Web
premium
Custom container web app
an Azure App Service web app that runs a team-supplied container image instead of a built-in runtime stack.
App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: App Service custom container, Web App for Containers, containerized App Service app
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DevOps
premium
Environment in Azure DevOps
An Azure DevOps environment is a logical collection of resources that a pipeline can target for deployments, approvals, checks, and deployment history.
Azure Pipelines
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: environment in azure devops
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Containers
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Container group
the Azure Container Instances unit where containers share scheduling, lifecycle, local network, exposed endpoints, resources, and storage volumes
Serverless containers
fundamentals
3 commands
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Containers
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Container image digest
the immutable sha256 reference that identifies the exact container image manifest Azure pulls during deployment
Container images
intermediate
3 commands
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Containers
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Container image tag
the human-readable label teams use to version, promote, and find container images in a registry
Container images
fundamentals
3 commands
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Containers
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Container Insights
Azure Monitor views and data collection used to understand Kubernetes cluster and workload health
Monitoring
intermediate
3 commands
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Containers
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Container Instances
Azure serverless container compute for running container groups without managing virtual machines or a full orchestrator
Serverless containers
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: ACI
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Containers
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Container App environment
Microsoft Learn describes a Container Apps environment as a secure boundary around one or more container apps and jobs. The runtime manages the environment by handling OS upgrades, scale operations, failover procedures, resource balancing, shared networking, and observability settings for the workloads that run inside it.
Serverless containers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Container App environment, app-service-plan, azure-kubernetes-service, azure-monitor, container app environment, container-app-environment, container-apps, container-apps-ingress, container-apps-managed-environment, container-apps-revision, container-apps-secret, container-apps-workload-profile, managed-identity
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Containers
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Container image
A container image is the sealed package that a container runtime starts. It contains the application, runtime, libraries, filesystem layers, and metadata needed to create containers the same way each time. Teams push images to a registry and then reference them from.
Container images
fundamentals
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Containers
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Container registry
A container registry is the place where teams keep the container images they build and deploy. In Azure, this usually means Azure Container Registry, a private service that stores repositories, tags, image manifests, Helm charts, and other OCI artifacts. Developers push images.
Container registry
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ACR, Azure Container Registry
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Web
complete
Static Web Apps linked backend
An external API service connected to a Static Web App so front-end requests can reach it through the app API route.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-linked-backend, Static Web Apps linked backend, SWA linked backend, bring your own API, Static Web Apps BYO API, Static Web Apps backend link
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Integration
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Logic Apps Standard
Logic Apps Standard is the Azure Logic Apps hosting option where one logic app resource can contain one or more workflows running in a single-tenant runtime, with app-level settings, storage dependency, deployment operations, and scaling controls in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
4 commands
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App platform
verified
Per-site scaling
Per-site scaling lets apps in the same App Service plan use different numbers of workers. Normally, when a plan scales out to five instances, every app in that plan can run on all five. With per-site scaling enabled, one quiet app might use one worker while a busy app uses four. This is useful when many related apps share a paid plan but do not need equal capacity. It is not autoscale by itself; it is a placement and worker-count control.
App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: per-app scaling, PerSiteScaling, App Service per-app scaling, per site scaling, high-density App Service scaling
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DevOps
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GitHub Actions for Azure
GitHub Actions for Azure is the set of GitHub workflow patterns and Azure actions used to sign in, build, test, package, deploy, and manage Azure resources from a repository. Teams use it to connect source control to Azure deployments while keeping workflow steps, identities, approvals, and release evidence in versioned automation. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers use azure/login, deploy web apps or functions, run Azure CLI scripts, deploy Bicep, push containers, or configure OIDC federation.
CI/CD
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure GitHub Actions, Azure actions, azure/login, GitHub Actions for Azure
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI provides OpenAI model capabilities through Azure resources, deployments, identity, networking, quota, and monitoring controls.
Azure OpenAI
intermediate
8 commands
Aliases: Azure OpenAI Service
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Management and Governance
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Azure subscription
An Azure subscription is a management, billing, and scale unit for Azure resources.
Azure scope
fundamentals
7 commands
Aliases: subscription
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Developer Tools
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Azure CLI
A cross-platform command-line tool for connecting to Azure and executing administrative commands on Azure resources.
Command line
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: az, Azure command-line interface
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Local
Azure Local is Microsoft’s distributed infrastructure solution that extends Azure capabilities to customer-owned environments for local VMs, containers, and selected Azure services through Azure Arc.
Distributed infrastructure
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Stack HCI, Azure Local infrastructure, Arc-enabled local infrastructure
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Foundry
Create a governed project boundary where AI teams can build agents, evaluations, files, and model deployments without unmanaged sprawl.; Compare, evaluate, and approve model deployments before a generative AI feature is
AI platform
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: AI Foundry, Microsoft Foundry, Foundry resource, Foundry project, Azure AI Foundry, azure ai foundry
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Search index
An Azure AI Search index is the place where your application searches. It is not just a pointer to a database or blob container. It is a separate searchable structure with documents, fields, and rules for how text, filters, facets, semantic ranking, and vectors behave. If the index schema is wrong, the search experience feels wrong even when the source data is good. Developers and operators use indexes to make.
AI platform and search
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search index, search index, AI Search index, azure-ai-search-index
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