Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps
You can now have separate containers that run before application containers are started in a replica and can perform all of the initialization logic.
10/05/2023
Update: NV-series and NV_Promo Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Move to GPU accelerated virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
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