A clerk-office scanner plus a tiny log sidecar must start and stop…

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A clerk-office scanner plus a tiny log sidecar must start and stop together and share one private network namespace on Azure Container Instances. How should the containers be deployed?

Accepted Answer

Place both containers in one ACI container group so they share lifecycle, network, and local addressing — Think of a container group as one shared studio apartment: same lease, same hallway, start and stop together. Two separate ACI instances are two different buildings—no shared localhost.

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Create two unrelated ACI instances and rely on public IPs for localhost-style calls between them

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Run only the scanner in ACI and require AKS for any sidecar regardless of size

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Publish each container to a separate ACR registry so network isolation is automatic

A clerk-office scanner plus a tiny log sidecar must start and stop together and share one private network namespace on Azure Container Instances. How should the containers be deployed?

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