deploying-azure-container-apps

deploying-azure-container-apps is a skill for Claude Code from alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deployment workflow for running Docker containers on Azure Container Apps, Microsoft's managed service for containerised applications. It covers web servers, streaming connections, sidecar containers, and one-off or scheduled background jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy long-running HTTP services, WebSocket or server-sent-event streams, Docker-based applications, sidecars, batch processors, cron jobs, and related apps sharing an environment.
Why use it?
It provides a deployment target when a short-lived serverless function or static website cannot handle long requests, persistent connections, custom runtimes, or multi-process workloads.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the azure-lean-stack-skills plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to deploy long-running HTTP services, WebSocket or server-sent-event streams, Docker-based applications, sidecars, batch processors, cron jobs, and related apps sharing an environment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills/deploying-azure-container-apps
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills --skill deploying-azure-container-apps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexpizarro/azure-lean-stack-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-lean-stack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00194

Measured 10d ago against content hash 93603c03eaf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

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 10d 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.

CMD wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://localhost:8000/health || exit 1
skills/deploying-azure-container-apps/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 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) $0
Active (0.25 vCPU, 0.5 GiB) pennies/month at low traffic
Always warm (minReplicas: 1) ~$5/month (no cold start)
Log Analytics workspace bound by dailyQuotaGb on the workspace (see instrumenting-azure-app-insights)

Critical pattern: share the managed environment

A Microsoft.App/managedEnvironments resource is the unit that owns networking + Log Analytics. One environment can host many Container Apps and Jobs. Sharing saves Log Analytics workspace cost and simplifies VNet wiring.

// One env created once
module env 'modules/managedEnv.bicep' = { ... }

// Multiple apps reuse it
module appA 'modules/containerApp.bicep' = {
  params: { managedEnvironmentId: env.outputs.id, ... }
}
module appB 'modules/containerApp.bicep' = {
  params: { managedEnvironmentId: env.outputs.id, ... }
}
module syncJob 'modules/containerAppJob.bicep' = {
  params: { environmentId: env.outputs.id, ... }
}

See references/multi-app-shared-env.md.

Container Apps Jobs — scale-to-zero by nature

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Files

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.

Changes

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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 215 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 93603c03eaf5

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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 78 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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