> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mage.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Azure Container Instance executor

> Execute block runs in separate container instances.

export const urls = {
  chat: 'https://www.mage.ai/chat',
  oss: 'https://www.mage.ai/oss',
  pro: 'https://cloud.mage.ai/sign-up'
};

export const ProButton = ({href, label = 'Get started with Mage Pro for free', source = 'documentation'}) => <div style={{
  height: 32,
  position: 'relative'
}}>
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      <span className="absolute inset-0 bg-primary-dark dark:bg-primary-light/10 border-primary-light/30 rounded-full dark:border group-hover:opacity-[0.9] dark:group-hover:border-primary-light/60">
      </span>

      <div className="mr-0.5 space-x-2.5 flex items-center">
        <span class="z-10 text-white dark:text-primary-light">
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        </svg>
      </div>
    </a>
  </div>;

If your Mage app is deployed on Microsoft Azure with Mage’s [Terraform](https://github.com/mage-ai/mage-ai-terraform-templates/tree/master/azure)
scripts, you can choose to launch separate Azure container instances to execute blocks.

How to configure pipeline to use Azure Container Instance executor:

1. Update Project's metadata.yaml

```yaml theme={"system"}
azure_container_instance_config:
  cpu: 1
  memory: 2
```

2. Update the `executor_type` of the block to `azure_container_instance` in pipeline's metadata.yaml and specify `executor_config` optionally.
   The block level executor\_config will override the global executor\_config.

```yaml theme={"system"}
blocks:
- uuid: example_data_loader
  type: data_loader
  upstream_blocks: []
  downstream_blocks: []
  executor_type: azure_container_instance
  executor_config:
    cpu: 1
    memory: 2
  ...
```

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