Azure Container Instance Management

Important: This connector and its actions have been removed from Nintex Workflow and can now be found in Nintex Gallery.

Azure Container Instance Management is a service that enables you to deploy containers on the Microsoft Azure public cloud without having to provision or manage any underlying infrastructure.

The service, which supports both Linux and Windows containers, eliminates the need for you to provision virtual machines, or implement a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes, to deploy and run containers. Instead, with Azure Container Instances you can spin up a new container using the Azure Container Instance Management connector actions, and Microsoft automatically provisions and scales the underlying compute resources. Azure containers also support standard Docker images you can pull from a container registry, such as Docker Hub or Azure Container Registry. For more information on Azure Container Instance Management see the company website.

In the context of Nintex Workflow, Azure Container Instance Management is a connector A software component that allows seamless integration with third-party services, business applications, and content stores. Examples include Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft SharePoint. Connectors are used to create connections required for workflow actions and start events.. The Azure Container Instance Management connector is used to create connections for Azure Container Instance Management actions A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process..

Use the Get a container group action in a workflow to retrieve the available containers in a container group. Use the Start and Stop actions to manage when container instances start and stop. Use the Get container logs action to retrieve the details of a container. You can use conditional statements in your workflow to discover if a container instance is running or not, and then start or stop it depending on the requirements of your workflow.

Create an Azure Container Instance Management connection

Note: Your browser-stored credentials are accessed to create connections. Either clear credentials from browser memory or make sure the stored credentials are for the intended environment.

Create a connection from the connections page or from the action configuration panel when configuring the action. For information about creating connections and assigning permissions, see Manage connections.

Complete the following fields when creating the Azure Computer Vision connection:

In this field	Select or enter the following
Connection name	A name for your new connection
Client ID	The client ID generated from the Azure portal tenant settings page.
Client secret	The client secret generated from the Azure portal tenant settings page.
Tenant ID	The tenant ID displayed on your Azure portal tenant settings page.

Azure Container Instance Management account requirements

• The account you use to create a connection for Azure Container Instance Management is the account that has access to the Azure Container Instance Management actions.

• You must register a single tenant app in Azure Active Directory and configure a client secret. See Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform for the steps to register a new application. This must be a single tenant app.

• You need the app's client ID, client secret, and the tenant ID. You can find them on your Azure portal tenant settings page.

Create a Azure Container Instance Management data lookup

Use the Azure Container Instance Management data lookup to retrieve data from Azure Container Instance Management resources and create a drop-down list within a form. Each data lookup is configured for a specific Azure Container Instance Management account. You can create as many data lookups as you need. For more information on creating a data lookup and assigning permissions to it, see Data lookups. After you create a Azure Container Instance Managementdata lookup, you can add a Data lookup control A form control that allow users to select from a drop-down list that has values sourced from a third-party service. to your form and configure it to use your new data lookup.

You can create a Azure Container Instance Management data lookup to:

• List subscriptions: List the subscriptions available from a Azure Container Instance Management connection.

Azure Container Instance Management data lookup fields

To access the data lookup fields, in the Add data lookup section, select the Azure Container Instance ManagementConnector and the Operation.

Operation	Field or selection	Description
List subscriptions	Connection	The connection to use for the data lookup.