AKS: Mount Versioned Content as OCI Image Volumes

This article provides a complete walkthrough on using the Kubernetes 1.36 stable image volumes feature to mount versioned OCI artifacts directly into pods on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It covers packaging project content as a scratch-based OCI image, pushing it to Azure Container Registry (ACR) with ORAS, and serving it from a Go HTTP API. The post explains why image volumes are cleaner than init containers or ConfigMaps, includes Terraform infrastructure provisioning for AKS 1.36 and ACR, and provides all source code. Ideal for DevOps engineers and Kubernetes developers looking to decouple content from application images.