App Service documentation

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. Learn how to use Azure App Service with our quickstarts, tutorials, and samples.

About App Service

Overview

• App Service overview
• Azure App Service plan overview
• App Service Environment overview
• Compare Azure hosting options for web apps

What's new

• Azure updates

Get started

Quickstart

• Deploy an ASP.NET web app
• Deploy a Node.js web app
• Deploy a PHP web app
• Deploy a Go app (experimental)
• Deploy a Java app
• Create a WordPress site
• Deploy a Python web app
• Deploy a Ruby on Rails web app

Common tasks

Tutorial

• Secure with custom domain and certificate
• Set up staging environments

How-To Guide

• Open an SSH session to a Linux container
• Migrate an active DNS name

Run custom containers

Quickstart

• Run a custom container

Tutorial

• Create a multi-container (preview) app
• Migrate custom software to App Service in a container

How-To Guide

• Continuous deployment with custom containers
• Mount Azure Storage as a local share in a custom container
• Deploy a custom container to App Service using GitHub Actions

CRUD app with database

Tutorial

• Build an ASP.NET app with Azure SQL Database
• Build an ASP.NET Core and Azure SQL Database app
• Build a PHP and MySQL app
• Build a Node.js and MongoDB app
• Build a Java Spring Boot web app with Azure App Service on Linux and Azure Cosmos DB
• Deploy a Python (Django) web app with PostgreSQL
• Build a Ruby and Postgres app

Secure

Concept

• Security in Azure App Service

Tutorial

• Secure Azure SQL Database connection from App Service without connection secrets
• Enable authentication in App Service and access storage without secrets
• Connect securely to services with Key Vault secrets
• Isolate back-end communication with Virtual Network integration
• Authenticate users end-to-end

Manage and integrate

Concept

• Manage an App Service plan
• Integrate your app with an Azure virtual network
• Azure App Service Hybrid Connections

Tutorial

• Host a RESTful API with CORS
• Add a CDN to your application

How-To Guide

• Map a custom domain when integrated with Traffic Manager
• Back up your app

Upload your code or content

Deploy

• Upload content with FTP
• Deploy zip packages and individual files
• Local Git deployment to Azure App Service
• Sync content from a cloud folder to Azure App Service
• Continuous deployment to Azure App Service
• Run your app directly from a zip package

Monitor your app

What's new

• App Service Integration with Azure Monitor
• Log Types for Azure Monitor Integration

Tutorial

• Troubleshoot an App Service app with Azure Monitor

How-To Guide

• Enable diagnostics logging for apps
• Get resource events
• Monitor App Service instances using health check

Reference

• Quotas & alerts

More resources

video

• App Service video library
• Pluralsight video training

sample

• CLI samples for Azure App Service
• PowerShell samples for Azure App Service

Reference

• Azure CLI
• Azure PowerShell
• REST API
• ARM template resource types

App Service on Azure Arc (preview)

Concept

• App Service, Functions, and Logic Apps on Azure Arc (Preview)

Quickstart

• Create an App Service app on Azure Arc (Preview)

Tutorial

• Set up an Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster to run App Service, Functions, and Logic Apps (Preview)