2 posts tagged with "container-apps"

When I started experimenting with OpenClaw for a personal setup, I did what most cloud engineers do: I immediately reached for Azure.

• Azure Container Apps
• Premium NFS storage
• Private networking
• Tailscale

Clean. Modern. Secure.

But then I did something we do not always do enough of: I actually ran the numbers.

This post walks through a real-world cost comparison (in AUD) between:

• Azure Container Apps
• A small Azure VM
• An older desktop running 24×7
• A Raspberry Pi 4 with NVMe storage
• A cheap unmanaged VPS (1 vCPU / 2 GB)

The results were interesting.

There has been a lot of talk about OpenClaw lately.

As an Azure Platform Engineer, I wanted to deploy it myself and understand what OpenClaw is about, why there is so much hype, and what the real security considerations look like in practice.

This walkthrough covers a GitOps-style deployment of an MVP-level architecture for a lab environment, using Azure Verified Modules (AVM) and GitHub Actions.

⚠️ Important: this is a lab/MVP deployment for learning and experimentation, not a production reference architecture. In my lab setup, I restricted inbound access to a single trusted source IP using Container Apps ingress access restrictions (firewall behavior).