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Azure Container Instances .NET code samples for documentation

This .NET Core 2.0 console application demonstrates several common Azure Container Instances (ACI) operations in C# using the fluent APIs in the Azure Management Libraries for .NET.

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Features

The code in this sample project demonstrates the following operations:

• Authenticate with Azure
• Create resource group
• Create single- and multi-container container groups
  • Expose application container to internet with public DNS name
  • Multi-container group includes both application and sidecar containers
  • Demonstrate async container group create
  • Run a task-based container with custom command line and environment variables
• Get and print container group details
• Delete container groups
• Delete resource group

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Azure subscription
• Microsoft .NET Core SDK version 2.1.2+

Run the sample

1. Use the Azure CLI (or Cloud Shell) to generate an Azure credentials file (more info)

   az ad sp create-for-rbac --sdk-auth > my.azureauth

2. Set environment variable AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION to the full path of the credentials file

3. git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/aci-docs-sample-dotnet

4. cd aci-docs-sample-dotnet

5. dotnet run

Resources

• Azure Management Libraries for .NET (GitHub)
• More Azure Container Instances code samples