configure-azure-app-service
identify features and usage cases for azure app service
create an app with azure app service
configure deployment settings, specifically deployment slots
secure your azure app service app
configure custom domain names
back up and restore you azure app service app
configure azure application insights
Azure App Service brings together everything you need to create websites, mobile backends, and web APIs for any platform or device. Applications run and scale with ease in both windows and linux based environments.
Quick-start products:
ASP.NET
Java
Node.js
PHP
HTML
Ruby
WordPress
Custom containers (windows/linux)
Python on Linux (Django/Flask)
Continuous Integration and deployment
Azure portal provides out-of-the-box continuous integration and deployment with azure devops, github, bitbucket, FTP or a local git repository on your development machine
App services auto-synchronizes your code and any feature changes to the code into your web app.
Things to know about continuous deployment
Automated deployment
Azure devops
github
bitbucket
Manual deployment
Git
CLI
Visual Studio
FTP(S)
Deployment slots
Deployment slots are live apps that have their own hostnames
Deployment slots are available in the standard, premium, and isolated app service pricing tiers. Your app needs to be running in one of these tiers to use deployment slots
App content and configuration elements can be swapped between two deployment slots, including the production slot.
Things to consider when using deployment slots
Consider validation
consider reduction in downtime
consider restoring to last known good site
consider auto swap
New deployment slots can be empty or cloned.
Deployment slot settings fall into three categories
Slot-specific app settings and connection settings
Continuous deployment settings
Azure app service authentication settings.
When you clone a configuration from another deployment slot, the cloned configuration is editable.
Swapped settings versus slot-specific settings
The following table lists the settings that are swapped between deployment slots, and settings that remain in the source slot (slot-specific)
General settings, such as framework version, 32/64-bit, web sockets App settings ***** Connection strings ***** Handler mappings Public certificates WebJobs content Hybrid connections ****** Service endpoints ****** Azure Content Delivery Network ****** Path mapping
Custom domain names Nonpublic certificates and TLS/SSL settings Scale settings Always On IP restrictions WebJobs schedulers Diagnostic settings Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) Virtual network integration Managed identities Settings that end with the suffix _EXTENSION_VERSION
Secure App service app
Azure app service provides built in authentication and authorization support.
The authentication and authorization security module in azure app service runs in the same environment as your application code, yet separately.
The security module is configured by using app settings. No SDKs, specific languages, or changes to your application code are required. When you enable the security module, every incoming HTTP request passes through the module before its handled by your application code. The security module handles several tasks for your app
Authenticate users with the specific tokens
Validate, store and refresh tokens
manage the authenticated session
inject identity information into request headers
Things to consider when using app service for app security
Allow anonymous requests(no action) for only necessary endpoints
Logging and tracing
You can create custom domains in azure portal itself and configure custom domain name for your app
Backup and restore feature in azure app service lets you easily create backups manually or on a schedule. You can configure the backups to be retained for a specific or indefinite amount of time. You can restore the app or site to a snapshot of a previous state by overwriting the existing content or restoring to another app or site.
Things to know about backup and restore
to use the backup and restore feature, you need the standard or premium tier app service plan for your app or site
You need an azure storage account and container in the same subscription as the app to back up
Azure app service can backup the following information to an azure storage account and container you configure
App configuration settings
file content
any database connected to your app.
Each backup consists of zip file(contains the back-up data for app/site) and XML file (manifest of your zip file contents)
full backups are the default
Backups can hold up to 10GB of app and database content
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