An app service is a self-contained environment for deploying a single web or mobile app within Azure. They support a number of different application frameworks such as ASP.NET, Java, Node.js, and PHP all without the need for us to configure any kind of server infrastructure ourselves. All we need to do is spin one up, then deploy our application to it, and Azure will handle the rest for us. However, if you have more advanced needs, then we have a few different ways of overriding the default configuration, including the use of environment variables and the web.config file.
As with creating the database there are actually two parts to the creation of our first app service. This is because app services must always belong ...
