Introduction to Containers and CI/CD

Dependency Management

Docker Fundamentals

Environment Variables and Configuration

Python CI Pipeline

Azure Container Registry and Deployment

Practice

Assignment

Gotchas & Pitfalls

Week 5 Lesson Plan (Teachers)

Azure Container Registry and Deployment

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Suggested Topics

• What Azure Container Registry (ACR) is: a private Docker image store in the cloud
• Creating an ACR instance in the Azure portal
• Authenticating GitHub Actions to ACR using service principals or managed identity
• Writing a GitHub Actions workflow that builds and pushes an image to ACR
• Tagging images for ACR: registry URL, repository name, and version tags
• Verifying your image in ACR: portal and CLI checks
• How ACR images are consumed by Azure Container Apps (preview for Week 6)
• Security basics: least-privilege access, avoiding admin credentials in CI
• Cost awareness: ACR pricing tiers and storage considerations

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