Azure App service creation step by step

What is Azure App service?

Azure App Service is a fully managed web hosting service for building web applications, services, and RESTful APIs. The service offers a range of plans to meet the needs of any application, from small websites to globally scaled web applications. It can host web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends using languages like .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python. Applications run and scale with ease on both Windows and Linux-based environments.

Below is the sample architecture of hosting App services using Azure services

Pic source( MS learning doc)

How to create an Azure app service?

During the process, we need

1)Valid Azure subscription

2)User with subscription mapped

3)Azure must have roles to create Azure services

4)Resource Group

5)Azure App service plan

6)Custom domain for DNS mapping

7) Azure SQL for backend.

8) Domain provider(Ex:- Godaddy) for DNS mapping with app service.

9) SSL cert .pfx format

Process to create App service

Goto portal.azure.com --> Create a resource --> App services --> create

We have to enter following details

a) Choose subscription

b) Create a Resource group/ select existing resource group

Provide Instance details --> Name for app service

Choose kind of instance if it is code or a docker container

Choose the runtime based on your language

Create an app service plan

Select the size of instance (I have choosen Dev/Test F1 size for free tier)

Note:- with Dev/Test size, we will not be able to use custom domain and DNS mapping

If we want to deploy app service for production, you can choose from below options. In this tiers, we can use custom domain, map DNS & use SSL for https url.