Extending Office Add-ins with the
Azure Container Service
Rick Van Rousselt
Office 365 / SharePoint Consultant
Rivaro Consultancy
Belgium
@RickVanRousselt
#ESPC16

- Ligthweight, open secure
platform
- Simplify building, shipping,
running apps
- Shipping container system
for code
docker and containers

Virtual Machines
• EachGuestOSneeds:
• CPU
• RAM
• Licensing
• Maintenance

• Moreroomforapps
• Lessermaintenance
• Licensing
Containers

Docker engine Docker engine

• Blueprint or definition of a container (readonly)
• Needed by docker engine to create a running instance of
a container
• Can consist out of multiple layers
Code Node.js UbuntuImage

Run everywhere
DEMO

V1 V2 V3
Eliminate app conflicts

DEV TEST PROD
Easy app shipping

It’s just easy for us developers
• When joining an ongoing project no need to do a long setup
for a developer environment
• No need for heavy virtual machines
• Development environment is almost the same as production
Why use containers

The SharePoint Context

Connecting to Office 365
groups from a container
Demo

Azure
Container
Service

- Optimisedforhostingcontainers
- Easytomanagecontainers atvery
largescales
- Docker swarmorDC/OSor
kubernetes included
- Opensource
What is the Azure Container
Service

• Largescale
• Proveninproduction
environments
• Complex
• Nativefromdocker
• Standarddocker
interface
• FromGoogle
• Preview
• Different API

Overview of the Azure
Container Service
Demo

Automated builds
Demo

Autoscaling
Demo

Twitter streams &
Cognitive Services
Demo

- Windowscontainers
- VS,VSTSandVSCodeintegrationand
deploymenttoAzureContainer
Service
- AzureContainerRegistry
Roadmap

Email:rick.vanrousselt@outlook.com
Twitter:@rickvanrousselt
GitHub:RickVanRousselt