In this episode of Cloud Builder Live we will be using the Azure Container Apps (in preview) to deploy a microservice REST API to query Covid-19 statistics around the world and then continuous deploy the entire thing from a GitHub repository. We will also be using Azure Load Testing (also in preview) to test scaling of our microservice.

This episode will air on April 12, 2022 at 6pm Eastern time. It will be streamed on both YouTube and Twitch.

To follow along with this stream, you will need the following to be installed:

• Node.js (download)
• Azure Subscription (signup)
• Azure CLI (instructions)
• Docker (install)
• ThunderClient for VSCode (install)

It is important to know that at the time of the stream both Azure Container Apps and Azure Load Testing are in preview. This means you may run across issues including the following:

• When preparing for this, I found that I had to manually edit the GitHub workflow to get it to trigger properly. I reported this in the following issue.

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