Azure App Service

Azure App Service

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Azure App Service provides a fully managed platform for building and hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile backends. Support multiple programming languages with integrated DevOps, security, and high availability.

When to Use

• Web applications (ASP.NET, Node.js, Python, Java)
• REST APIs and microservices
• Mobile app backends
• Static website hosting
• Production applications requiring scale
• Applications needing auto-scaling
• Multi-region deployments
• Containerized applications

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Login to Azureaz login
# Create resource groupaz group create --name myapp-rg --location eastus
# Create App Service Planaz appservice plan create \  --name myapp-plan \  --resource-group myapp-rg \  --sku P1V2 \  --is-linux
# Create web appaz webapp create \  --resource-group myapp-rg \  --plan myapp-plan \  --name myapp-web \  --deployment-container-image-name nodejs:18
# Configure app settingsaz webapp config appsettings set \  --resource-group myapp-rg \  --name myapp-web \  --settings \// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Use deployment slots for zero-downtime deployments
• Enable Application Insights
• Configure autoscaling based on metrics
• Use managed identity for Azure services
• Enable HTTPS only
• Store secrets in Key Vault
• Monitor performance metrics
• Implement health checks

❌ DON'T

• Store secrets in configuration
• Disable HTTPS
• Ignore Application Insights
• Use single instance for production
• Deploy directly to production
• Ignore autoscaling configuration