I’ll be asking my rep about the hosted RShiny server in private preview— our team didn’t know about that so we’ve struggled through putting our shiny app (developed on Databricks using RStudio, that part was fantastic) into a container and hosting it in Azure’s Web App Service pointing to Azure’s Container Registry Service. We’ve been using Databricks Connect to allow the container to connect to a high concurrent cluster that powers the Spark back end. With the new Spark Connect coming in 3.3 we’ll be exploring using that to make the connections, potentially even serverless if that works. I’ve been less than impressed with the Azure services and our organization is inexperienced with creating our own containers to be candid. For future applications we may move our RStudio Connect installation from on prem to the a set of dedicated VMs and host there, but a Databricks hosted solution we’d be excellent if that still is a possibility.
