Configuring app services

An alternative to ACI is app services. Microsoft Azure recently released a new feature so that we can deploy Docker images using app services. This kind of approach is useful when you want to keep the same environment for your development machine and production environment. In contrast to ACI, app services provides us with a managed way to run our containers. It comes with some out-of-the-box features, such as SSL encryption, monitoring, configuration management, remote debugging, and application scaling settings. On top of that, app services is strongly integrated with other Azure products. Therefore, it is possible to plug other services into catalog-srv easily. For example, we may choose to run our Azure SQL Database solution to set up a fully-managed SQL database for the catalog service. Azure SQL provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility...