Exploring the Latest Updates in Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps

In this session, we will explore Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps (ACA) and demonstrate the latest enhancements, including support for workload profiles and the managed scaling capabilities of the Timer trigger for Azure Functions.
Azure Functions on Azure Container apps is a new hosting solution that facilitates the creation and deployment of Azure Functions apps in an environment alongside microservices, APIs, and other container-hosted applications.
We're delighted to introduce support for highly-requested features in our current preview. These include Workload Profiles, which allow customers to host function apps in both Consumption and Dedicated plans, accommodating diverse workload profiles within a same Container Apps environment. Additionally, we're introducing Platform-managed scaling for the Timer trigger in Azure Functions. This feature empowers customers to schedule functions according to their requirements while maintaining the capability to scale from zero to one and back to zero, optimizing resource utilization.
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[@allanhouston22]

why not run FAs in Azure without ACA?

[@JustinLoveless89]

When deploying to a kubernetes environment (whether AKS or a managed environment like azure container apps) you can make use of KEDA which allows your functions to scale to zero based on the activity on a queue or topic subscription, as opposed to metrics like CPU and memory utilization. This means you can have proactive scaling based on actual need versus reactive scaling based on usage metrics.