Microsoft ACA updates 2023 - Q1

Within this blog, I want to give an overview of all the feature in Q1 2023 that becomes available in General Availability, Technical Preview or End of Support by Microsoft. This information can be found at Microsoft Azure Updates.

Features that are now supported by Microsoft (GA):

• [General available] Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
  Azure Container Apps, a service for building and deploying modern applications and microservices using serverless containers, now supports mounting Azure Files file shares and ephemeral volumes. Mount a file share to read and persist data in Azure Files. This is useful for loading large amounts of data without increasing the size of your container images. You can also use Azure Files to share data with other containers and applications. With ephemeral storage, you can share data between multiple containers in a replica. Data written to ephemeral storage is persisted for the lifetime of the replica. Click here to learn more.
• [General available] Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps
  Azure Container Apps support for Azure Monitor logging is now generally available and ready for production use. By default, all logs are sent to Log Analytics for an Azure Container Apps environment. With the Azure Monitor integration, you can choose to send your logs to Azure Monitor and then configure where to send them from there. Azure storage, Event Hubs, and partner solutions are all destinations you can leverage. Click here to learn more.
• [General available] Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
  Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available. The benefits of custom-mounted storage include:
  • Configure persistent storage for your App Service app and manage the storage separately. Support is available for Transaction Optimized and Premium usage tiers of Azure Storage File shares
    
  • Ability to map a Virtual Directory for your web app using the mounted Azure Storage file share;
    
  • Make static content like video and images readily available for your App Service app;
    
  • Write application log files or archive older application log to Azure File shares;
    
  • Share content across multiple apps or with other Azure services.
    Click here to learn more.

Features that are currently in Public Preview and not yet GA

• [Public Preview] Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases
  With data API builder, database objects can be exposed via REST or GraphQL endpoints so that your data can be accessed using modern techniques on any platform, any language, and any device. With an integrated and flexible policy engine, native support for common behavior like pagination, filtering, projection and sorting, the creation of CRUD backend services can be done in minutes instead of hours or days, giving developers an efficiency boost like never seen before. Data API builder can be used on-premises, in a container or a VM and has been also integrated with Azure Static Web Apps to provide developers with a complete end-to-end experience. Data API builder supports multiple Azure databases including: Azure SQL, SQL Server, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. Click here to learn more.
  

For more information about the features that are coming out, please refer to the public roadmap of Microsoft ACA team.