Security in Azure App Service
Azure App Service is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications and APIs with support for multiple programming languages. It's also another great example of an Azure service with multiple security features built in. We can control access, protocols, certificates, and many other things.
One of the early problems we need to solve for any application is authentication. App Service allows us to set up authentication based on a few different providers: Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft (or Live) account, Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Naturally, the best integration method is using Azure AD, as it is native and also allows you further control through Azure AD tools and features.
In order to set up Azure AD authentication for App Service, we need to do the following:
- In the App Service Authentication blade, we need to select Microsoft, as in the following figure:
Figure 9.2 – Azure App Service...
