Azure Container Registry (ACR): A Complete Guide

A Comprehensive and Practical Course: Containers, Automation, Networking, Security, Monitoring, HA, AKS, and others

Created by: courscape.com by Andrei Barbu | Microsoft employee working daily with AKS, ARO, ACI, ACR
Microsoft Employee working on AKS, ARO, ACI, ACR and more

What Will I Learn?

• Containerization, Docker and registries basics
• What Azure Container Registry (ACR) is, how to create one
• Basic operations like import, push, pull
• How to automate container builds, pushes and more during commit source code with the help of ACR Tasks and ACR Webhooks
• How to properly delete, recover and lock images and repositories
• Authentication methods and the proper roles needed
• How to integrate ACR with other Azure services
• Networking and security considerations like restricting access, private connection, data exfiltration, access from behind a firewall, scanning, Content Trust
• How to monitor and troubleshoot ACR
• How to obtain resiliency, high availability, performance, better pull speeds, overcome public registries rate limiting and more

Requirements

• It is good to have basic knowledge of Containerization, Linux, Networking, and Azure, but I am explaining most of the concepts at specific points during the course

Target audience

• Anyone that is new to container world
• IT professionals or administrators looking for a simple and security container registry to store and manage container images or other artifacts
• Cloud architects who want to understand the benefits and limitations of Azure Container Registry and how it fits into their cloud architecture or how to integrate it with other Azure services, like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances (ACI)
• Existing ACR users that are looking to extend their ACR knowledge and fully benefit from this service while enhancing the registry security, availability or performance
• System Administrators responsible for managing container environments and looking to leverage Azure Container Registry for secure storage and distribution of container images
• Azure Enthusiasts looking to expand their understanding of Azure's capabilities and delve into the world of containerization