If you do not want to create your web apps using the Azure Portal, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio, which has built-in integration for many different Azure services.
This exercise was created using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (15.6.4) with Azure workloads installed. If you want to configure your instance and ensure everything is set up correctly, please follow the short tutorial available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/dotnet-tools?view=azure-dotnet&tabs=windows.
In Visual Studio, click on File | New Project. This will display a New Project window, where you can find plenty of different templates for starting with a new application. Because we are interested in cloud ...
