Mapping an ACI-instance to a Reserved IP on Azure

Question

Are there any best practices on continuous deployment to an Azure Container Instance so that it keeps the public IP? Or mapping an Azure Reserved IP to a dynamic IP that the ACI gets bound to at deployment?

Answer 1

Currently, your best bet is to create a DNS A record for the app and remap it to the new IP when you create a new container. However, we are working on enabling you to simply update the container and keep the IP.

Update: You can now request a DNS entry for your ACI container in the Microsoft-managed azurecontainer.io domain using the dns-name-label switch in the az cli. You can keep this DNS stable across updates.

az container create -n helloworld --image microsoft/aci-helloworld /
    -g myResourceGroup --dns-name-label mycontainer