Azure Administration: Implement and Manage Application Services

Learn how to build scalable apps that can be deployed worldwide with Azure App Service.

Azure App Service allows to host your web and API apps and provides an amazing set of features, including security, load balancing, autoscaling, automated management, and DevOps optimization. In this course, instructor Tiago Costa offers an introduction to App Service, covering the benefits, available plans, and features for building scalable solutions that can be deployed worldwide. He provides guidance on developing Azure web apps; instruction for managing and deploying app services with ARM templates, Azure DevOps, and GitHub; and explores essential security topics, such as authentication, backups, and monitoring. Plus, learn about advanced topics such as deployment slots, containers, and global distribution with Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Traffic Manager.

This course is an ideal deep dive for Azure admins and DevOps professionals wishing to understand more about how to use Azure App Service—as well as anyone wishing to advance their App Service skills in preparation for the AZ-103 Azure Admin exam.

Introduction

• Azure App Services that work for you
• What you should know

1. Introduction to Azure App Service

• App Service overview
• App Service plans
• App Service plan demo
• Logic Apps overview
• Logic Apps demo
• Mobile and API apps overview
• Azure Functions overview
• Azure Functions demo

2. Azure Web Apps

• Overview of Azure Web Apps
• Creating a web app on the Azure portal
• Deployment slots
• Deployment slots demo
• Running WebJobs in Azure Web Apps
• Scaling Azure Web Apps
• Configuring autoscaling
• Running containers

3. Managing App Service

• Configuring application settings
• Adding custom domains to Web Apps
• Adding custom domains to Web Apps demo
• Azure CDN integration
• Traffic Manager integration
• Traffic Manager demo

4. Deployment

• ARM templates integration
• Deployment of an ARM template
• Deployment to Azure Web Apps
• Deployment to Azure Web Apps demo
• Integration with Azure DevOps demo
• Integration with GitHub demo

5. Security and Advanced Features

• Protecting apps with SSL certificates
• Authenticate users in Azure Web Apps
• Authenticate users in Azure Web Apps demo
• Managing App Service backups
• Managing App Service Environment
• Monitoring and diagnostics

Conclusion

• Next steps