# addAzureContainerAppEnvironment

- Module: [Aspire.Hosting.Azure.AppContainers](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.azure.appcontainers.md)
- Version: `13.4.0`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/aspire)

Adds a container app environment resource to the distributed application builder.

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationBuilder {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addAzureContainerAppEnvironment(name: string): AzureContainerAppEnvironmentResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)

## Returns

[AzureContainerAppEnvironmentResource](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.azure.appcontainers/azurecontainerappenvironmentresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [IDistributedApplicationBuilder](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.azure.appcontainers/idistributedapplicationbuilder.md)