Azure App Service
Table of Contents
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 Azure
az login
# Create resource group
az group create --name myapp-rg --location eastus
# Create App Service Plan
az appservice plan create \
--name myapp-plan \
--resource-group myapp-rg \
--sku P1V2 \
--is-linux
# Create web app
az webapp create \
--resource-group myapp-rg \
--plan myapp-plan \
--name myapp-web \
--deployment-container-image-name nodejs:18
# Configure app settings
az 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:
| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | App Service Creation with Azure CLI | App Service Creation with Azure CLI | | Terraform App Service Configuration | Terraform App Service Configuration | | Deployment Configuration | Deployment Configuration | | Health Check Configuration | Health Check Configuration |
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