Sunday, March 9, 2025

Managing Planned Maintenance for Azure Container Apps

Azure Container App is a fully managed Azure service that receives regular updates automatically. These updates are applied with minimal impact on the container applications. However, Azure Container App users can now define a maintenance window, allowing them to schedule service maintenance at a convenient time. This ensures application availability during important periods without downtime due to service maintenance.

There are two types of service updates, critical and non-critical updates. Critical updates are applied immediately when required, and users cannot set a maintenance window for them. However, maintenance windows can be set for non-critical updates. This blog explains how to set a maintenance window for Azure Container App using a GitHub Action pipeline.