Chapter 3. Azure Web Apps
In the previous chapter, you created a VM and manually installed packages to run a basic web server. You could build an online pizza store with this VM if you were hungry to get started. One of the biggest use cases for Azure VMs is to run web applications, typically at scale. Web applications are a comfortable workload for VMs. Comfortable is nice, if you also like the maintenance that goes with managing all those VMs. You know, fun things like software updates, security patches, centralized logging, and compliance reports. What if you could get all the power of a secure web server to run your web applications, including the ability to automatically scale to meet demands, but without the need to create and manage all ...
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