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Orchestrate Azure Container Apps Jobs with Apache Airflow

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hetvip
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Jul 14, 2026

Two open-source templates that let Airflow drive real ACA Job executions: bring your own Airflow, or stand one up with a single command.

Azure Container Apps (ACA) Jobs are a great way to run work that starts, does something, and finishes: nightly batch, data processing, ETL, ML scoring, report generation. They scale to zero, bill per...
Updated Jul 14, 2026
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Saintroi
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Jul 16, 2026

Hetvi,

Thanks for creating this! Great timing as I'm looking to do exactly what you've laid out here, following the airflow-hosted-on-aca steps.

That said, during the deployment I got the following error, can you review and advise? Thanks again!

The specified role definition with ID 'b24988ac618042a0b36b1e0c5c08f87b' does not exist. (Code: RoleDefinitionDoesNotExist)



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Jul 17, 2026

Great catch. That was a bug on my end (an invalid role GUID in the Bicep), now fixed on main, so just git pull and re-run azd up.

One heads-up: the role assignment needs Owner or User Access Administrator (plain Contributor can't assign roles). If you're on a locked-down subscription, run azd env set ASSIGN_JOBS_ROLE false before azd up — everything still deploys, and the output gives an admin a one-line command to grant the role once.

Thanks again for flagging it! Details are in the new "Permissions & role assignment" section of the README.

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    Saintroi
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    Jul 31, 2026

    Finally got to revisit this and it absolutely worked, thank you!