Summary

This chapter introduced Azure App Service by looking at some fundamentals, such as App Service plans, as well as some basics of App Service web apps. You then delved into authentication and authorization, stepped through the authentication flow, and saw a summary of some networking features. Once the app was up and running, you looked in some detail into configuration options and how application settings can be used by the application. You learned about the different types of built-in logging available with App Service and went through an exercise to enable the application code to log messages that App Service could process. Then, you learned how to automatically scale your App Service based on conditions and rules to make use of the elasticity that the cloud offers. Finally, you looked at how to make use of deployment slots to avoid downtime during deployments, control how changes are rolled out, and roll back changes if required.

The topics and exercises covered in this chapter should help you understand the concepts that will be discussed later in this book. If you understand the fundamental concepts, you will be much better prepared for the exam, which may contain some abstract questions that require this kind of understanding, rather than just example questions.

In the next chapter, you will look at containerized solutions. You will start with an introduction to containers and Docker, before exploring the container-related services that you need to be aware of for this exam.