What is Azure App Service?

Azure App Service is a Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) service that allows developers to effortlessly design, distribute, and manage online and mobile applications. It includes automatic scaling, continuous deployment, and built-in support for popular programming languages.

Benefits of Azure App Service

High availability:

Apps can be hosted anywhere manually or automatically on Microsoft’s global data center infrastructure. App Service provides high availability with 99.5% SLA uptime.

Highly-secured web apps:

Azure Web Apps helps to deliver enterprise-level SLA by providing PCI security standards,

Step 1:

Create the web app:

• To create a web app you need to first create a resource group or use an existing group.

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  Resource group "Damtest4" is successfully created.

• To create the web app we need an "App Service Plan".

• To create an "App Service Plan", type "az appservice plan create --name DamAppServicePlan --resource-group Damtest4"

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  To create the "Web App" type "az webapp create --name Dam4webapp --resource-group Damtest4 --plan DamAppServicePlan"

• Note: Ensure the webapp name is unique.

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  The webapp address is displayed as "dam4webapp.azurewebsites.net"

• Type it in a web browser to confirm the web app is up

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  In Summary:

• This shows that the web is up and running.