Learn Microsoft Azure by Doing:How to create your first App Service in Azure?

Meriem Terki
3 min readFeb 4, 2023

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Looking to Create a new app service in Microsoft Azure? Well, you’ve come to the right place! In this guide, we’ll use the Azure portal to do that, let’s start !

Introduction

What is Azure App Service ?

  • Azure App Service enables you to build and host web apps, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.
  • It offers auto-scaling and high availability, supports both Windows and Linux, and enables automated deployments from GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any Git repo.

Task Steps

Step 1: Create an Azure App Service

  1. Login into the portal using the URL https://portal.azure.com/
  2. Click on the shortcut of App Service on the page .

3. Click on Create .

4. Create a new Ressource group and give it a name (in our case az900appserviceg)

5.pick a globaly unique name for web app(in our case az900appservice).

6. Leave the publish parameter value as default which is code.

7. Choose the .Net6 as a runtime stack.

8.Choose windows as an operating system.

9.Don’t forget to select an appopriate region.

10. For the App service plan which is more like your server or your VM:

  • Give it a name (in our case az900appplan).
  • Because we’re using a free tier option ,i can only choose to create the free App Service plan ,if we’re on a pay as you go plan i can choose many other types of VMs or App Service plans.

11.Click on Review+create to create a new web app.

12.Here we’re !Our deployment has succeeded .

12. Click on Go to ressouce and here all the various properties of a particular app service.

Step 2: Load up the created website

  1. One of intersting properties here is the URL

2. Click on the URL and open it in a new tab.

3. This will load up the website that was just created

4. Here we go! all the ressources have been loaded and here’s our stock standard website .

You’re all done! Congratulations!

That’s all I have for today folks. Thank you for reading and/or following along! I hope this project was helpful and worth your while. Stay tuned for my next project.

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Meriem Terki
Meriem Terki

Written by Meriem Terki

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