Summary
In this chapter, you learned what Azure App Service and Azure App Service for Containers are and then created the Azure resources you need using Azure Cloud Shell. You started by creating a resource group and then a Linux-based Azure App Service plan. Inside this Azure App Service plan, you created a web app and set the deployed container image to nginx from Docker Hub.
After the deployment, you used the Azure portal to search for the newly created web app and used the overview blade to find the URL of your running container. Then, you navigated to view the nginx welcome page.
Next, you learned about the pros and cons of using Azure App Service to deploy your container workloads. We discussed a couple of advantages and disadvantages, some with a smaller and some with a bigger impact. You now know what Azure App Service for Containers is and how to create a simple Azure App Service plan and web app that runs a container image from Docker Hub. As mentioned in this chapter...
