Build and manage containers with tasks

Azure Container Registry (ACR) tasks are a suite of features that:

  • Provide cloud-based container image building for platforms like Linux, Windows, and Advanced RISC Machines (Arm).
  • Extend the early parts of an application development cycle to the cloud with on-demand container image builds.
  • Enable automated builds triggered by source code updates, updates to a container’s base image, or timers.

Task scenarios

ACR Tasks supports several scenarios to build and maintain container images and other artifacts.

  • Quick task – Build and push a single container image to a container registry on-demand, in Azure, without needing a local Docker Engine installation. Think docker build, docker push in the cloud.
  • Automatically triggered tasks – Enable one or more triggers to build an image:
    • Trigger on source code update
    • Trigger on base image update
    • Trigger on a schedule
  • Multi-step task – Extend the single image build-and-push capability of ACR Tasks with multi-step, multi-container-based workflows.

Each ACR Task has an associated source code context – the location of a set of source files used to build a container image or other artifact. Example contexts include a Git repository or a local filesystem.

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