Azure App Services

Azure App Services
AppServices Overview
• Azure App Service is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications,
REST APIs, and mobile back ends. You can develop in your favorite
language, be it .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python.
Applications run and scale with ease on both Windows and Linux-based
environments.
• App Service adds the power of Microsoft Azure to your application, such as
security, load balancing, autoscaling, and automated management.
• Additionally, you can take advantage of its DevOps capabilities, such as
continuous deployment from Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker Hub, and
other sources, package management, staging environments, custom
domain, and TLS/SSL certificates.
What is Azure App Service
• Azure App Service is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that
provides you with the tools and services needed to create reliable and
scalable mission-critical Web Apps, Mobile Apps, API Apps, and Logic
Apps in a single instance.
• It takes away your management of the host and lets you focus entirely
on building your application for performance.
Why use App Service?
Azure App Service is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) offering for developers. Here are
some key features of App Service:
• Multiple languages and frameworks - App Service has first-class support for ASP.NET, ASP.NET
Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python. You can also run PowerShell and other scripts or
executables as background services.
• Managed production environment - App Service automatically patches and maintains the OS and
language frameworks for you. Spend time writing great apps and let Azure worry about the
platform.
• Containerization and Docker - Dockerize your app and host a custom Windows or Linux container
in App Service. Run multi-container apps with Docker Compose. Migrate your Docker skills
directly to App Service.
• DevOps optimization - Set up continuous integration and deployment with Azure DevOps, GitHub,
BitBucket, Docker Hub, or Azure Container Registry. Promote updates through test and staging
environments. Manage your apps in App Service by using Azure PowerShell or the cross-platform
command-line interface (CLI).
• Global scale with high availability - Scale up or out manually or automatically. Host your apps
anywhere in Microsoft's global datacenter infrastructure, and the App Service SLA promises high
availability.
Why use App Service?
• Connections to SaaS platforms and on-premises data - Choose from many hundreds of
connectors for enterprise systems (such as SAP), SaaS services (such as Salesforce), and
internet services (such as Facebook). Access on-premises data using Hybrid Connections
and Azure Virtual Networks.
• Security and compliance - App Service is ISO, SOC, and PCI compliant. Create IP address
restrictions and managed service identities. Prevent subdomain takeovers.
• Authentication - Authenticate users using the built-in authentication component.
Authenticate users with Azure Active Directory, Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Microsoft
account.
• Application templates - Choose from an extensive list of application templates in the
Azure Marketplace, such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
• Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code integration - Dedicated tools in Visual Studio and
Visual Studio Code streamline the work of creating, deploying, and debugging.
• API and mobile features - App Service provides turn-key CORS support for RESTful API
scenarios, and simplifies mobile app scenarios by enabling authentication, offline data
sync, push notifications, and more.
• Serverless code - Run a code snippet or script on-demand without having to explicitly
provision or manage infrastructure, and pay only for the compute time your code
actually uses .
What is App Service Plan
• To create App Service, you need an App Service Plan. Without

an App Service Plan you cannot create App Service. So, in the
Azure portal, when you try to create app service, you will have
to select an app service plan if you have one already or create a
new one. The point is, without an App Service Plan, you cannot
create App Service. This is beacuse it is the App Service Plan
that defines the compute resources required for your
application to run.
How to Create App Services in Azure Portal
Step 1: Prerequisites
• a) You should have a valid Azure Account.
• b) You should have a valid subscription.
• c) You should have access to create an App Service.
Step 2: Login to Azure Portal

• First you need login to below Azure Portal using your valid user account and
password.
• Upon successful login, you will land into Portal Home Page from where you can
create all the required resources.
Step 3: Create a Resource Group
• All the resources which you are going to create, it
should be created in a Resource Group. So the
next step is to create a Resource Group.
Step 4: Open App Services
In the next step you need to create an app service
from Azure App Services. You can either search
App Services from the Home Page search box or go
directly to the Service from Portal Menu as you can
see below.
• Step 5: Create App Service
• Once App Services opened, you can click on Create as shown below.
a) Basics
• You will see below Create Web App window where you need to first
fill the Basics section. You need to select your Subscription and
Resource Group which you want to use.
• Then you need to provide the Instance details were you need to provide a
unique instance name. I am using test301 so the complete name becomes
test301.azurewebsites.net as you can see below.
• Then you have the option to publish it as Code or Docker Container.
• I will choose to publish as Code. Next you need to choose the Runtime
Stack.
• I am using .NET 6(Early Access) as my runtime stack. You can choose as per
your requirement.
• Then you need to choose the Operating System you want to use. Currently
Azure provides two options - Linux or Windows.
• I am going to choose Windows for my web app. Finally, you need to choose
the Region. By default, Central US will be selected.
• I will use this default option however you can change it to a suitable
location as per your need.
• If you further scroll down, you will see App Service Plan details to fill. You can either use any
existing App Service Plan or create a new one by Clicking on Create new.
b) Deployment(Preview)
• In the next section, you need to select your Deployment settings.
• This option is pretty handy if you are looking to perform Continuous deployment of your web app
in App Service.
• You can set up GitHub repository to maintain your project source codes and can deploy your web
app to App Service based on new commit done on repository.
c) Monitoring
Next section is about enabling the monitoring for this app service using Application Insights. Azure has a very powerful
Application Performance Management(APM) tool called Application Insights which can be used to monitor Azure resources
for any performance anomalies. For the moment, I am keeping it disabled by clicking on No as you can see below. Then
Click on Next: Tags to proceed.
d) Tags
Here you can use the Tags to categorize your resources which further helps you in tracking the billing of those
resources. Each of the tags that you create are just name/value pairs. Since here I am not using any tags so I will just
click on Next: Review + create> to proceed to the next section.
e) Review+Create
Finally, you can review all your configuration and then click on Create once you verified all the details given in each section.
After a while you can see that your deployment is completed and it should look like below. You can get more details
about this deployment by clicking on Go to resource . This completes the creation of web app Services.

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• To create App Service, you need an App Service Plan. Without

• b) You should have a valid subscription.

• c) You should have access to create an App Service.

Step 2: Login to Azure Portal

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