Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

App Services

For web solutions, I generally use App Services or Container Instances, depending on whether I am deploying as a .NET package or a Docker container. As a quick side note, App Service now encapsulates Container, Logic, and Function App services.  The use of Docker containers allows for the deployment model to not be cloud-specific or require application updating because all the code and its dependencies are usually self-contained within the Docker container. When I need to create a web service (web API) or better yet, an endpoint, I would traditionally choose to redeploy it to an App Service or convert it to a function or a Logic App. A function is an App Service that can be run serverless or VM backed, and are basically small ...