July 2025 Updates #1545
Description
Summer-time / July update was a relatively quiet month for Azure Container Apps (ACA). Below are highlights from this month.
🆕 New documentation & guidance
| Resource | Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment strategies for ACA | The July 2025 release of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) introduced a set of new Learn articles. One of these articles explains different deployment workflows for Azure Container Apps, covering blue/green deployments, rolling updates, and other advanced patterns. |
Azure Developer CLI – July 2025 release notes |
| Remote build support | Another article published with the azd July release shows how to perform remote container builds using Azure Container Registry to improve build performance and consistency. |
Azure Developer CLI – July 2025 release notes |
| Docker as a language | The same release also added guidance on using Docker as a first‑class language type in azd. This is especially useful for languages without native azd support. |
Azure Developer CLI – July 2025 release notes |
| azd extension framework & dev-to-prod workflow | Two additional docs explain how to extend the Azure Developer CLI with custom logic and streamline local development to production deployment workflows. | Azure Developer CLI – July 2025 release notes |
| ACA vs. other container services | A late July article compares Azure Container Apps, AKS, and ACI in terms of operational overhead, control, and scalability. It emphasizes ACA’s sweet spot: running microservices with minimal ops burden. | Azure Container Options – All Things Azure blog |
📦 New samples & community resources
| Sample / resource | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Support Slack Bot | A new GitHub sample demonstrates a Slack bot that integrates Azure Support ticket creation and (planned) tracking directly into Slack. It includes infra-as-code for deploying to Azure Container Apps. | GitHub: Azure Support Slack Bot |
| KEDA scaling for Service Bus w/ Azure Functions | A blog post shows how to host Azure Functions in ACA using az containerapp create --kind functionapp and scale them with KEDA via Service Bus triggers using AZURE_CLIENT_ID. |
Azure Feeds |
| Multi-agent AI solution (A2A + MCP) | Geert Baeke shared detailed walkthroughs of deploying AI Foundry agents and LangChain4j MCP agents to ACA. These blogs showcase secure, private multi-agent architectures with ACA + VNET + Workflow. | baeke.info – July 2025 |
✅ Feature reminders
- Private Endpoints GA Pricing — Pricing for Private Endpoints on workload profile environments took effect on July 1, 2025. This enables secure private IP access to ACA environments.
- Premium Ingress & Rule-based Routing (Public Preview) — Still in public preview, Premium Ingress adds configurable ingress scaling and Rule-based Routing enables HTTP routing based on host/path.
🙋🏽♀️ Community callouts
- Try the new deployment patterns docs listed above – especially useful for teams moving from CI to CD.
- If you’re using
azd, check out the July release and share feedback with the team on GitHub. - Interested in LangChain agents or AI workloads? The community is experimenting with ACA to host lightweight agent frameworks using secure enclaves and Workflow.
🗓 What’s next
The ACA team continues to work on features announced at Build 2025, including:
- Workflow integration
- Planned maintenance windows
- Serverless GPUs improvements
Keep an eye on the ACA GitHub repo and the Apps on Azure blog for updates.