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Difficulty: MediumAzure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure App Service

An organization is evaluating container hosting options in Microsoft Azure and wants to understand the characteristics of Azure Container Instances (ACI) compared to other Azure container services. Which two statements correctly describe the features or capabilities of Azure Container Instances (ACI)?

  1. It provides a serverless platform to run containers without provisioning or managing underlying virtual machines.Answer
  2. B
    It provides built-in orchestration features such as service discovery, automated scaling, and coordinated container upgrades.
  3. It offers hypervisor-level isolation for container groups to secure workloads.Answer
  4. D
    It requires the customer to configure and apply operating system patches to the host servers.

Answer

The correct statements are that Azure Container Instances provides a serverless platform to run containers without provisioning or managing underlying virtual machines, and it offers hypervisor-level isolation for container groups to secure workloads.
Azure Container Instances is a serverless container hosting service. It enables users to deploy containers immediately without the overhead of provisioning, managing, or scaling virtual machines. In addition, it provides hypervisor-level isolation for each container group by default, ensuring that containers within a group are isolated from other customer workloads sharing the same infrastructure.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the core management model of Azure Container Instances.
Azure Container Instances is serverless, meaning Azure manages the underlying virtual machines and host OS patching.
This helps rule out options claiming host patching is a customer responsibility.
2
Identify the orchestration and scaling boundaries of Azure Container Instances compared to Azure Kubernetes Service.
Azure Container Instances does not provide full orchestration features like automated service discovery or complex coordinated upgrades; those are features of Azure Kubernetes Service.
This rules out options claiming built-in orchestration capabilities for Azure Container Instances.
3
Confirm the isolation security features of Azure Container Instances.
Each container group in Azure Container Instances is isolated at the hypervisor level.
This confirms that hypervisor-level isolation is a correct characteristic.

Key Concept

Azure Container Instances (ACI) features and serverless container hosting
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