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Creating Azure App Service Web Apps
We’ve covered some good ground so far with hosting applications on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). We’re now going to step into Platform as a Service (PaaS) with Azure App Service. Developers that traditionally had web apps hosted on an Internet Information Services (IIS) server – even if it was a cloud-based VM with IaaS – are moving their applications so that they’re hosted on App Service, which brings even more benefits to this scenario than IaaS.
It’s important to understand that Azure App Service is more than just for hosting web apps, so we’ll start with an overview of App Service as a whole before turning our focus to web apps. We’ll also take what we learned about containers in the previous chapter ...
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