Edi Wang

Microsoft MVP for Azure

Posts in January 2026

Deploying a Remote Chrome Browser with Azure Container Instance

Running a full desktop browser in the cloud and accessing it remotely can be surprisingly useful. You might want a disposable browser for testing and automation, a sandboxed environment isolated from your local machine or a remote browser you can get to from any device with a decent network connection. In this post, I'll walk through how I deployed a remote Chrome browser running in a Docker container on Azure Container Instances, and how I access it from a regular web browser.
Azure Docker Container