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Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Runs one or more containers on Azure Container Instances without VMs or an orchestrator - secure by default with no privileged containers, redacted secret fields, and an optional managed identity.

terraformAzure#azure
azure-container-instancesterraform v1.7

Verification

Live-tested

Really deployed to a cloud sandbox, verified against its outputs and assertions, then destroyed - with the teardown confirmed.

Conformance

  • Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
  • Security scan clean (Checkov)
  • Plan test superseded by live test

Provenance

Functional

  • Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed

Last verified 2026-06-30 · how we verify

Verify this download

cosign · sha-256

Don't take our word for it. Every release is signed with cosign - check the bytes against our pinned public key before you trust them.

# 1. Our pinned public key - fetch once, trust out-of-band
curl -O https://www.iac-bazaar.com/cosign.pub

# 2. This module's Sigstore bundle
curl -o azure-container-instances-1.0.0.sigstore.json \
  https://www.iac-bazaar.com/api/artifacts/azure-container-instances/signature

# 3. Verify the tarball you downloaded
cosign verify-blob \
  --key cosign.pub \
  --bundle azure-container-instances-1.0.0.sigstore.json \
  azure-container-instances-1.0.0.tar.gz
# → Verified OK

# 4. (optional) confirm the checksum too
echo "724cb81a81fbf7ec31aea8baad40a409dce016b25937b472b415fece8c680900  azure-container-instances-1.0.0.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c

Use it from the registry

terraform · opentofu
module "container_instances" {
  source  = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/azure-container-instances/azure"
  version = "1.0.0"
}

Paid module — needs a purchase (or a subscription that covers it) plus a registry token from /account/tokens. Full setup: registry docs.

Inputs & outputs

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Documentation

azure-container-instances

Run one or more containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI) without VMs or an orchestrator — a azurerm_container_group deployed into an existing resource group. Fast and cheap: billed per-second for the requested vCPU/memory only while running. Out of the box it deploys a single public Linux hello-world container (0.5 vCPU / 1.0 GB on port 80) so a bare apply gives you a reachable endpoint; override containers for real workloads. Secure by default: no privileged containers, secrets passed only through provider-redacted fields (secure_environment_variables, secret volumes, registry credentials), and an optional managed identity for passwordless registry pulls and CMK. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu (>= 1.6), azurerm provider >= 4.0, < 5.0.

Security notes

  • ACI is exposed to the internet when ip_address_type = "Public" — the common ACI use case. For internal workloads set ip_address_type = "Private" with subnet_ids, or "None" for no inbound IP. There is no per-port firewall on the group itself; restrict at the VNet/NSG level (Private) or at the app.
  • Never put secrets in environment_variables; use secure_environment_variables, secret volumes or registry credentials — all redacted by the provider.
  • Prefer a managed identity + user_assigned_identity_id for registry pulls over username/password.
  • The OS managed disk and group are encrypted at rest with platform-managed keys by default; supply customer_managed_key (with a matching identity) for BYOK.

Requirements

RequirementVersion
Terraform / OpenTofu>= 1.6
hashicorp/azurerm>= 4.0, < 5.0

License

Commercial — IaC Bazaar EULA. © IaC Bazaar. Original work (not derived from a third-party module).

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