Azure App Services is a platform as a service offering for both mobile and app developers that can host a number of different application models and services. While the developers can create a simple mobile app service to act as a data store access layer within minutes without writing a single line of code, intricate and robust .NET Core applications can also be implemented with intrinsic integration to other Azure Services. In this chapter, we will go through the basics of Azure App Services and create a simple data-oriented backend for our application using ASP.NET Core, with authentication provided by Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
The following sections will guide you through the process of creating our service backend:
- Choosing the right app model
- Creating our first Microservice
- Integrating with Redis cache
- Hosting the services...
