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Azure Container Apps vs Docker comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Container Apps
Ranking in Container Management
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Docker
Ranking in Container Management
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Development Platforms (2nd), Software Supply Chain Security (5th), AI Software Development (23rd)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2858520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Modernization has accelerated cloud migration and now delivers resilient, flexible microservices
I consider the best features offered by Azure Container Apps to be power, event-based scaling, and ease of management. The power of event-based scaling and the ease of management have benefited my team and my projects by allowing the applications to be very flexible since they can scale based on process queue sizes or HTTP requests and for many other reasons such as entries in a Redis cache. Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud. I have measured that impact in terms of improvements in resilience, which are very important because we move to having microservices deployed in several availability zones, with autoscaling, and as a result, they are very flexible and very reliable.
ER
Senior QA and Developer
Local container testing has boosted development speed but still needs lower battery and memory use
The main thing that really frustrates me about Docker is how much battery power it consumes on a Macintosh. I really am not a fan of that, which leads me to not want to run Docker 24/7 because I do not want my laptop battery to be exhausted by Docker instances running or even the Docker CLI or UI being booted up. I tend to not have it running until I need it, and then I run it and close it. It would be really nice if it did not consume as much battery as it does currently. Docker can definitely be improved by reducing the battery and CPU load that it impacts on a Macintosh. If it were possible for me to run Docker without panicking about the battery running out, that would be excellent. I believe battery is the biggest issue with Docker. The other issue is memory. It seems to consume a lot of memory, and I am not a fan of that. This means that I need to have a really powerful, high-specification Macintosh with a lot of battery and a lot of memory for it to work reliably. I do not always have access to that. If Docker could consume less battery and less memory, that would be magnificent.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud."
"Docker creates lightweight applications that are easy to manage and scale."
"The stability is excellent."
"I think the best feature is to replicate anything in our local machine using a simple command."
"We use Docker to facilitate deployment, updates, and management."
"Docker is very reliable. It's easy to scale, and it's very stable."
"Docker offers a resilient system with minimal failure chances and optimized performance"
"Docker allows you to run multiple virtual machines independently."
"There are ways of using Docker where you have absolutely no dependencies on the environment that you work in, which allows us to deploy Docker anywhere anytime and has been most valuable because it removes any dependencies when it comes to deployment."
 

Cons

"Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not."
"Unfortunately, base images are not currently available."
"There are elements of stability that are problematic. One of the most recent upgrades created a major incident on our cloud, whereby the containers were not restarting automatically."
"I think Docker can improve as it relates to overall stability."
"Docker could improve by providing the ability to use the GPU for parallel processing. If there was the capability of using the GPU it would improve the machine learning that I want to use."
"The solution could improve with a GUI instead of only a command line interface. Having to use the command line interface can be a hassle."
"Sometimes, we have sync-up issues where the build doesn't get processed due to these sync issues, causing the build to fail. That's one of the drawbacks I see. When we did a huge sync-up, we faced a couple of issues. It takes some time for us to complete the sync-up. For frequent, smaller updates, we haven't had any issues. However, challenges can arise for those who prefer doing everything in one go. This might not necessarily be due to the tool itself but because of the approach of doing everything in a single batch."
"Management can be improved with the necessary tools for orchestration."
"The stability could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Docker is open source. To use a Docker enterprise model, we would need to pay for it."
"Since Docker is an open-source solution, it is free of cost."
"Docker has made some changes and there is an enterprise version that is affordable."
"For commercial use, it's about $30 per month. The license itself isn't expensive, but if there are many users, the price becomes high."
"I use the solution's open-source version."
"Customers pay for the license through a yearly subscription model, where they pay per license. This means that the license is based on a subscription, and the customer pays annually for each license they use."
"The current cost for us is nothing as an open source."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
 

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Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise35
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Container Apps?
My experience with the implementation cost, pricing, and licensing of Azure Container Apps includes some difficulty with the Azure calculator to obtain the expected costs, but in general, it is a p...
What needs improvement with Azure Container Apps?
Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not.
What is your primary use case for Azure Container Apps?
My main use case for Azure Container Apps is application modernization from on-premises to the cloud. A specific example of how I have used Azure Container Apps in one of those modernization projec...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Docker?
The setup cost has balanced out, and I find Docker's pricing reasonable. Docker Engine is free and open source for Linux, and Docker Desktop is free for individual developers and small teams, but a...
What needs improvement with Docker?
The main thing that really frustrates me about Docker is how much battery power it consumes on a Macintosh. I really am not a fan of that, which leads me to not want to run Docker 24/7 because I do...
What is your primary use case for Docker?
My main use case for Docker is building and testing Docker materials built by other people and also other systems. I do a lot of voluntary GitHub work and development, so some of that runs on Docke...
 

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