Storage performance issues for azure files mount

[rhuanbarreto]

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Issue description

We are evaluating running Appsmith in Azure Container Apps (in West Europe region), but their Git feature is very disk intensive and by using volumes with Azure Files, there are plenty of performance issues, which doesn't appear to happen by using an AKS cluster with the default storage class (disk.csi.azure.com) or by running our own VM with a SSD and Docker.

I also tried to use Premium file storage shares to check if the IOPS bump would solve it, but the performance issues persisted.

Is there any clear performance difference between using disks and azure files? Or maybe latency issues?

[torosent]

Hi, Can you send your details to acasupport at microsoft dot com? we will investigate.

[rhuanbarreto]

Email sent

[premun]

@rhuanbarreto were you able to solve this issue? I am in a similar situation - building a service which would be performing local git operations on large repositories - and I am looking into using Azure Container Apps but even the Premium storage Azure Files mount has poor performance for all of the file operations.

I also noticed https://github.com/microsoft/azure-container-apps/issues/485 which could potentially solve this but would also be probably very expensive.

[rhuanbarreto]

Most likely the performance issues are connected to the SMB/CIFS protocol. We decided to deploy a tiny AKS cluster with disk volumes only for supporting this application while we investigate the performance issues further.

[riskpoint-per]

Is there a workaround this? As the performance hit is quite hefty is certain scenarios.