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Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps enable teams to deploy modern applications and microservices without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Built on top of Kubernetes, ACAs offer serverless scale, dynamic event-driven processing. Azure Container Apps provide seamless integration with open-source tools like KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) , Dapr (Distributed Application Runtimes), and Envoy (proxy service), all without the complexity of managing various Kubernetes clusters.
With Azure Container Apps, your developers can focus on the value-add, such as building application logic, while the platform automatically manages scaling, updates, failover, and infrastructure security. Whether deploying APIs, background processing jobs, or AI-powered applications, Azure Container Apps delivers a simplified yet powerful model for cloud-native application deployment.
Benefits of Azure Container Apps
With Azure Container Apps, your business gains the flexibility to deploy and scale modern applications without managing complex infrastructure. The platform helps reduce operational costs, accelerate innovation, and improve developer productivity.
Here’s a run-down of 5 key benefits of investing in Azure Container Apps:
Eliminate the need to manage servers or Kubernetes clusters. Azure Container Apps handles infrastructure, scaling, and updates for you, freeing up your IT teams to focus on delivering value through applications.
Applications can scale automatically based on demand, whether driven by HTTP traffic, events, or resource usage. Scale to zero when not in use to optimise cost-efficiency, or scale dynamically to handle peak loads.
Simplify the deployment of microservices, APIs, and background jobs. Developers can use familiar tools and workflows, speeding up release cycles and helping you bring new products and features to market faster.
Easily integrate with other Microsoft Azure services, including Azure AI, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure API Management and Azure Monitor. This ensures a cohesive architecture that supports your evolving digital strategy.
Benefit from Azure’s built-in security capabilities, including identity management, role-based access controls, and secret management. Run containers securely, with options for private networking and granular access controls. You can also protect your applications with advanced security appliances, rate limiting and load balancing capabilities with Application Gateway Web Application Firewall and Application Gateway for Containers.
AZURE & CLOUD SERVICES
BCN have been a trusted Cloud Migration partner for businesses of all shapes and sizes, for over 15+ years. If you’re looking to move to the cloud, we’re here to help.
The Cloud offers a wide range of possibilities for your IT environment, but with ease of use & flexibility comes risk. BCN can help optimise your cloud environment to meet your business requirements.
Get seamless access to virtualised desktops and applications from anywhere with BCN’s Azure Virtual Desktop service. Empower your business with the flexibility, scalability, and security for it needs for its digital transformation journey.
Store your data and applications with BCN’s Azure Platform as a Service (Azure PaaS); a managed cloud environment for application development, data management, and integration.
A set of standardized Azure environment configurations to kickstart your cloud journey. Enable seamless deployment and confident management of cloud resources with Azure Landing Zones.
Our Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) is a comprehensive solution that provides end-to-end monitoring of your IT infrastructure and applications, ensuring they are optimized for performance, availability, and security.
Our Managed Backup service provides a single platform for all your data backup needs. Reducing the risks associated with multiple data silos, whilst maximising cost optimisation and increasing operational efficiencies.
We are more than just a Managed Services Provider. We want to be a part of your journey, from initial strategy to ongoing optimisation.
Our Customers
Azure Container Apps Services
Modern applications demand flexibility, scalability, and speed, without the operational burden of managing complex infrastructure.
From deploying APIs, processing data streams, and powering AI-driven services, to building scalable web applications and secure microservices architectures, our cloud experts at BCN use Microsoft best practice and experienced project approach to help you accelerate growth for your business. Additionally, we provide a full or co-managed Azure service wraparound to continue to provide value throughout the lifecycle of the solution. We offer guidance and experience around new product offerings and ecosystem developments to ensure that you are benefiting from new technology in a controlled way and gaining the most out from your cloud environment.
We provide end-to-end deployment and configuration services, allowing your teams to focus on building great applications instead of managing infrastructure. This includes a full readiness assessment and solution architecture design, configuring Azure Container Apps environments to match your network and security policies, and setting up container packaging, registry, and CI/CD pipelines. We also ensure seamless integration with Microsoft Azure and open-source tools like KEDA, Dapr, and Envoy, all with smooth go-live support and transition management.
Once deployed, our experts ensure your Azure Container Apps (ACA) workloads are fully optimised for performance, security, and cost efficiency. We achieve this through advanced scaling configuration and autoscaler tuning, comprehensive performance benchmarking and recommendations, and robust security hardening and policy enforcement. We also optimise traffic management, facilitating strategies like blue/green deployments and A/B testing, and ensure full observability through integration with Azure Monitor.
We help you seamlessly connect Azure Container Apps with your broader application and data ecosystems. This includes integrating with key Microsoft Azure services such as AI, ML, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps, alongside implementing secure API gateways. We also provide expert container networking design and implementation, ensuring seamless connectivity with on-premises, hybrid, or third-party environments.
Our relationship with you goes far beyond initial deployment, as we provide proactive support and continuous optimisation for your systems. This includes 24/7 monitoring and technical support, regular health checks and capacity reviews, and expert guidance on new features and the Azure Container Apps roadmap. We also offer advanced training to upskill your teams and provide ongoing strategic advice to fuel your application innovation.
Customer Stories
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With their outdated infrastructure fast approaching the end of vendor support, Southway Housing Trust needed to find a modern solution and a provider who could deliver it quickly. The not-for-profit organisation, which provides quality affordable housing in south Manchester, didn’t simply want to upgrade their systems, they wanted to build a new modern, cloud-first IT environment. BCN was able to quickly and successfully migrate the trust and its more than 300 users to a bespoke Azure infrastructure that provides a flexible, scalable and secure environment that’s fit for the future.
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is renowned across the UK’s public health sector as a pioneer of continuous quality improvement. ELFT now uses SPC Charts to provide its teams with intelligent insights in near real-time to support the prediction of future trends, the identification of variations and data-informed decision-making.
MetroRod needed to migrate from their existing IT provider and needed a provider to help the business review and recreate their entire IT infrastructure, including designing an Azure environment, migrating business systems, replacing core systems and legacy technology among a plethora of other needs. Successfully delivering the project in the time frame, BCN continues to support the business’s digital transformation journey.
The rapid development of Frenkel Topping in a short time had presented several key challenges and issues for BCN to help them overcome. Their users’ technology requirements had grown accordingly in complexity and volume and they required an aligned technology stack to bring all the brands to the same technical standards.
Since 2009, Brand Potential has been using commercial and creative thinking to help brands looking for accelerator growth and long-term value. Choosing BCN as their IT provider, we provided a hybrid cloud solution, enabling Brand Potential to move into modern ways of working and ensuring that their system files were more secure and easy to use, as reflected by a 25% reduction in the number of hours lost to support issues.
MICROSOFT AZURE SERVICES
At BCN, our tech experts understand that leveraging new technologies like ACAs can revolutionise your business operations. As a leading Microsoft Partner, we offer end-to-end support to help businesses like yours harness the full potential of serverless container platforms.
Our deep expertise across the Microsoft ecosystem ensures that you’re not just adopting a new technology but integrating a strategic solution that drives growth and success.
With the Microsoft Advanced Specialisation in Analytics in Azure, this advanced specialisation means BCN is one of the few select partners able to access new, simplified funding streams via the Azure Innovate partner-led programme. This means our customers now benefit from faster, easier access to investment from Microsoft to support their data transformation journeys.
Our Expertise
“Azure Container Apps (ACA) are a great alternative to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), they provide lots of the value of Kubernetes without customers having to worry about having the in-house skills to manage a complex AKS environment and clusters. ACAs can quickly be leveraged to create modern applications, integration services and micro services to help automate and modernise your application estate and leverage best in breed cloud services and security configurations. ACA is a fantastic option for event-driven containers and stateless applications that quickly scale to meet demand, but it can also be used for stateful applications as well. Events can be triggered by HTTP triggers, Apache Kafka or Azure services such as Service Bus and Event Grid. As successful ACA implementations often interact with lots of different technology in Azure such as data, analytics, AI, Machine Learning, messaging services and application development it’s important to work alongside a partner that has the breadth of capabilities to help support this journey. At BCN we operate across all of the Microsoft technologies and are able to deliver a unified, integrated solution across them to meet the needs of our customers.”
“Azure Container Apps (ACA) are a great alternative to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), they provide lots of the value of Kubernetes without customers having to worry about having the in-house skills to manage a complex AKS environment and clusters.
ACAs can quickly be leveraged to create modern applications, integration services and micro services to help automate and modernise your application estate and leverage best in breed cloud services and security configurations.
ACA is a fantastic option for event-driven containers and stateless applications that quickly scale to meet demand, but it can also be used for stateful applications as well. Events can be triggered by HTTP triggers, Apache Kafka or Azure services such as Service Bus and Event Grid.
As successful ACA implementations often interact with lots of different technology in Azure such as data, analytics, AI, Machine Learning, messaging services and application development it’s important to work alongside a partner that has the breadth of capabilities to help support this journey. At BCN we operate across all of the Microsoft technologies and are able to deliver a unified, integrated solution across them to meet the needs of our customers.”
Chris Henry – Head of Azure Centre of Excellence at BCN
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