AZ-104 Certification Notes
Chapter 11.2 - Creating Web Apps
Web App Service Features
- Managed Infrastructure
- No need to patch, maintain, implement, or configure underlying infrastructure components with this Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Highly Available
- Azure App Service runs apps on multiple nodes to provide high availability
- Autoscaling In/Out
- Scaling capabilities similar to scale sets ensure you can meet the traffic demands of your application
- Development Focused
- Development of application code is the focus for web app service deployments
- Deployment Slots
- CI/CD DevOps provides features such as staging slots for deployments, e.g. production slot and staging slot
- Azure Service Integration
- App Service integrates several Azure services, such as Azure AD as an identity provider or VNets for connecting App Service to resources within a virtual network
Exam Tips
- Web Apps
- Application Runtime
- Host an application using a specific runtime that is selected as part of the provisioning process
- Public Accessibility
- Web Apps are publicly accessible by default, and can be accessed using the domain provided to you by Azure
- Publishing Tools
- Publish your application code to web apps using various publishing tools including Azure DevOps, GitHub, Zip file, SCM, etc.
- Database Support
- Connect your database to your web app using a connection string
- Application Runtime