I've been working on a deployment of Sitecore using containers recently, and hit a scenario which isn't discussed much in the Microsoft documentation: How do you go about setting it all up if you can't use Active Directory accounts across your DevOps and Azure instances? Having done some digging, here's what I've learned so far:
With the release of Sitecore 8.2 Update 1 last week, we finally have support for running our Sitecore solutions as Azure Web App Services without the need for the Sitecore Azure Module. As someone who had never tried a PaaS deployment with the old module, this brings a load of interesting benefits, but also has a few challenges to get your head around. I've spent a bit of time experimenting, and discovered a few things that you might want to read up on before you dive in.