With many organizations across the globe adopting the multicloud and edge computing approach, many applications, data centers and hosting environments are running across heterogeneous infrastructures, where managing, governing, and securing these IT estates has become a challenge.

Businesses know that shifting to the cloud can reduce costs, boost performance, and enable them to scale based on rising (or falling) traffic. However, reports show that in 2019, just 22% of enterprise primary workload deployments were on the public cloud. The top issue: complex legacy apps that are resistant to modernization. 

Containers make it easier for users to continuously build and deploy applications.

Microsoft recently announced a new Azure service—Azure Container Instances (ACIs)—to make it easier and faster for developers to deploy containers for their applications.