Chapter 9: Creating Microservices Azure App Services
Azure App Service is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for both mobile and app developers that can host a number of different application models and services. While developers can create a simple mobile app service to act as a datastore access layer within minutes without writing a single line of code, intricate and robust .NET Core applications can also be implemented with intrinsic integration to other Azure services.
In this chapter, we will go through the basics of Azure App Service and create a simple, data-oriented backend for our application using ASP.NET 5, with authentication provided by Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). We will also improve the performance of our web API endpoint with Redis cache. The following sections will guide you through the process of creating our service backend:
- Choosing the right app model
- Creating our first microservice
- Integrating with Redis cache
- Hosting the services...
