Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills --skill deploying-azure-container-appsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills/deploying-azure-container-apps)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills/deploying-azure-container-apps"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills/deploying-azure-container-apps/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills/deploying-azure-container-apps"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills/deploying-azure-container-apps.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00137 | $0.03551 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00055 | $0.01420 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00710 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00355 |
Grade A, and why
deploying-azure-container-apps scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
**Scale-to-zero is a whole-system property, not a config value.** Four things silently pin a `minReplicas: 0` app at one billed replica 24/7 (gotchas #41–#45): something calling it (your own status page, an anonymous hea How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Deploying Azure Container Apps
Scale-to-zero Docker containers for workloads SWA + FC1 can't handle: long-running servers, WebSocket/SSE, streaming, custom runtimes, multi-process sidecars, and run-to-completion background jobs.
When to use Container Apps
| Need | Use |
|---|---|
| CRUD API + React frontend | SWA — not this |
| Timer/queue trigger, AI workload, < 30 min | FC1 — not this |
| Long-running HTTP server, > 30s requests | Container App (this skill) |
| WebSocket / SSE / streaming | Container App with --request-timeout 1800 |
| Sidecar (e.g. headless browser, embedded DB) | Container App multi-container |
| Batch / cron / one-shot processor | Container Apps Job (this skill, jobs section) |
| Multiple related apps sharing logs/networking | Shared managed environment (this skill) |
Cost defaults
| State | Cost |
|---|---|
Idle (minReplicas: 0, cooldownPeriod: 300) |
$0 |
| Active (template default 0.5 vCPU / 1 GiB) | pennies/month at low traffic |
Always warm (minReplicas: 1, or cooldownPeriod longer than your traffic gaps) |
~A$8/day for a 1.5 vCPU replica, ~US$5/mo for the smallest |
| Log Analytics workspace | bound by dailyQuotaGb on the workspace (see instrumenting-azure-app-insights) |
Scale-to-zero is a whole-system property, not a config value. Four things silently pin a minReplicas: 0 app at one billed replica 24/7 (gotchas #41–#45): something calling it (your own status page, an anonymous health probe, a scheduler that wakes it then checks for work), cooldownPeriod longer than the gap between requests, a replica stuck in Activating on an ImagePullFailure (bills full vCPU — one deleted registry cost A$420/mo for 12 days), and your own CI curling /health or az containerapp update-ing a retired app. Check running replicas, never revisions: applying-azure-cost-guardrails/scripts/check-live-replicas.sh.
What ships with it
9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- references/aca-jobs.md 4.8 KB
- references/multi-app-shared-env.md 3.1 KB
- references/scale-to-zero.md 4.4 KB
- references/sidecar-pattern.md 3.2 KB
- templates/containerApp.bicep 5.4 KB
- templates/containerAppJob.bicep 3.4 KB
- templates/managedEnv.bicep 1.4 KB
- templates/multi-container.yaml 1.7 KB
- templates/scale-config.json 741 B
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago Changed · -8 lines 4c69c9c1a98a
- 1mo ago Changed · +41 lines · +59 tokens per session facd1faa8f88
- 1mo ago First seen · 215 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 93603c03eaf5
deploying-azure-container-apps is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 3,551 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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