Exploring Azure App Service

Azure App Service is an HTTP-based PaaS service on which you can host web applications, RESTful APIs, and mobile backends, as well as automate business processes with WebJobs. With App Service, you can develop in some of the most common languages, including .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python. With WebJobs, you can run background automation tasks using PowerShell scripts, Bash scripts, and more. With App Service being a PaaS service, you get a fully managed service, with infrastructure maintenance and patching managed by Azure, so you can focus on development activities.

If your app runs in a Docker container, you can host the container on App Service as well – you can even run multi-container applications with Docker Compose. As early as Chapter 1, Azure and Cloud Fundamentals, we alluded to App Service allowing you to scale – automatically or manually – with your application being able to be hosted anywhere within the global Azure infrastructure...