Summary

In this chapter, we dived into Azure App Service by looking at some fundamental features, such as App Service plans, as well as some basics of App Service web apps. We then delved into authentication and authorization, stepped through the authentication flow, and provided a summary of some networking features. Once our app was up and running, we went into some detail about configuration options and how application settings can be used by the application and are exposed as environment variables. We learned about the different types of built-in logging available with App Service and went through an exercise to have our application code log messages that App Service could process. Then, we learned how to automatically scale our App Service based on conditions and rules to make use of the elasticity that the cloud offers. Finally, we walked through how to make use of deployment slots to avoid downtime, control how changes are rolled out, and how to roll back changes, should this...