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Your team needs to run a simple, isolated application within a container. You want to use Azure Container Instances (ACI). Which two of the following statements are characteristics of Azure Container Instances? (Select two.)

  1. It starts in seconds without the need to provision or manage virtual machines.Answer
  2. Microsoft automatically manages the operating system patching for the host environment.Answer
  3. C
    It requires you to manually configure and patch the operating system of the virtual machines hosting your containers.
  4. D
    It provides full container orchestration capabilities such as automatic rolling upgrades and service discovery across multiple pods.

Answer

The correct characteristics of Azure Container Instances are that it starts in seconds without virtual machine provisioning and that Microsoft manages host OS patching.
The correct options are that Azure Container Instances starts in seconds without needing virtual machine provisioning, and that Microsoft automatically manages host operating system patching.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the service in the scenario.
The scenario specifies Azure Container Instances (ACI).
To evaluate the statements correctly, we must focus on the capabilities and characteristics of ACI.
2
Evaluate the management overhead and hosting model of the service.
ACI is a serverless (PaaS) offering, meaning there is no virtual machine management or OS patching responsibility for the customer.
This confirms that fast startup without VM configuration and automated host patching are correct characteristics, while manual OS updates is incorrect.
3
Determine if container orchestration is required.
The scenario requires running a simple, isolated container, and ACI does not provide advanced orchestration features like service discovery, which is a key differentiator from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
This confirms that the option describing advanced orchestration is incorrect.

Key Concept

Azure Container Instances (ACI) characteristics and its distinction from virtual machines and orchestration services
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Topics

Azure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure App Service

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