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Performance Tuning with Azure Container Instances

In this Lab, you will start with a container already provisioned. You'll make it run a workload, and will monitor CPU consumption. Then we'll create a second, more powerful container, and check that it can run a larger workload!

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Published
Clock icon Apr 20, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Simulate Real-World Workloads

    Execute a load simulation on an already-provisioned container to observe how the application responds under stress.

  2. Challenge

    Monitor and Analyze Performance Metrics

    Use Azure Monitor and the Azure Portal to track key performance indicators, including CPU utilization, memory consumption, and network activity, to understand workload behavior.

  3. Challenge

    Optimize Resource Allocations

    Create a second container, increase its CPU allocation, then deploy.

  4. Challenge

    Evaluate Performance Trade-offs

    Analyze the performance of this new container, and compare it to the original container's performance.

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