Azure Container Instance Management

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 Automation Cloud, Azure Container Instance Management is a connector Service used to define a connection required for associated actions and start events. Examples include Salesforce and Box. Method of integration to cloud services, business applications and content stores.. 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..

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.

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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 source

Use the Azure Container Instance Management data source to retrieve data from Azure Container Instance Management resources and create a drop-down list within a form. For more information on creating a data source and assigning permissions to it, see Data sources.

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

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

Each data source is configured for a specific Azure Container Instance Management account. You can create as many data sources as you need.

To add a Azure Container Instance Management drop-down list to your form:

  1. Create your Azure Container Instance Management data source.

    2. See Data sources.

  2. Add a data lookup form control to your form and configure it to use your new data source.

Azure Container Instance Management data source fields

To access the data source fields, in the Add data source 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 source.