/azure-app-service

name: azure-app-service
description: >
  Deploy and manage web apps using Azure App Service with auto-scaling,
  deployment slots, SSL/TLS, and monitoring. Use for hosting web applications on
  Azure.

Azure App Service

Table of Contents

• [Overview](#overview)
• [When to Use](#when-to-use)
• [Quick Start](#quick-start)
• [Reference Guides](#reference-guides)
• [Best Practices](#best-practices)

Overview

Azure App Service provides a fully managed platform for building and hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile backends. Support multiple programming languages with integrated DevOps, security, and high availability.

When to Use

• Web applications (ASP.NET, Node.js, Python, Java)
• REST APIs and microservices
• Mobile app backends
• Static website hosting
• Production applications requiring scale
• Applications needing auto-scaling
• Multi-region deployments
• Containerized applications

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Login to Azure
az login

# Create resource group
az group create --name myapp-rg --location eastus

# Create App Service Plan
az appservice plan create \
  --name myapp-plan \
  --resource-group myapp-rg \
  --sku P1V2 \
  --is-linux

# Create web app
az webapp create \
  --resource-group myapp-rg \
  --plan myapp-plan \
  --name myapp-web \
  --deployment-container-image-name nodejs:18

# Configure app settings
az webapp config appsettings set \
  --resource-group myapp-rg \
  --name myapp-web \
  --settings \
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the `references/` directory:

| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | [App Service Creation with Azure CLI](references/app-service-creation-with-azure-cli.md) | App Service Creation with Azure CLI | | [Terraform App Service Configuration](references/terraform-app-service-configuration.md) | Terraform App Service Configuration | | [Deployment Configuration](references/deployment-configuration.md) | Deployment Configuration | | [Health Check Configuration](references/health-check-configuration.md) | Health Check Configuration |

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Use deployment slots for zero-downtime deployments
• Enable Application Insights
• Configure autoscaling based on metrics
• Use managed identity for Azure services
• Enable HTTPS only
• Store secrets in Key Vault
• Monitor performance metrics
• Implement health checks

❌ DON'T

• Store secrets in configuration
• Disable HTTPS
• Ignore Application Insights
• Use single instance for production
• Deploy directly to production
• Ignore autoscaling configuration