Azure App Service is a fully-managed platform as a service (PaaS) for building, deploying, and scaling web, mobile, API, and even serverless apps. In this Lab, you will learn all about App Service by deploying an ASP.NET Core app to Azure App Service Web Apps. You will also use a variety of services to monitor the app, including the Application Performance Management service called Application Insights. You will finish the Lab by configuring an alert when certain conditions are met in the monitoring data.

Lab Objectives

Upon completion of this Lab you will be able to:

• Explain and create App Service plans and App Services
• Understand the available App Service Web Apps deployment options
• Use deployment slots for zero-downtime deployments
• Monitor Web Apps using metrics, logs, and Application Insights

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

• General software development and DevOps principles

Updates

November 27th, 2024 - Updated instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI changes

April 23rd, 2024 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

February 21st, 2023 - Migrated lab to workspace-based Application Insights

October 2nd, 2023 - Resolved deployment issue

July 17, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

March 13th, 2023 - Updated VCF to use latest stack 

December 15th, 2022 - Updated instructions and screenshots due to .NET 3 being no longer supported

October 3rd, 2022 - Updated instructions and screenshots due to UI changes

January 31st, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

July 9th, 2021 - Updated to create app insight as a separate resource in classic mode (thereby resolving an issue with Application Insights)

March 24th, 2021 - Updated to use .Net Core 3.1 (thereby resolving an issue with Application Insights)

December 24th, 2020 - Emphasize to choose Windows for the App Service Plan operating system

July 29th, 2020 - Updated the content to reflect the latest Azure Portal experience. Replaced the end of lab validation checks with checks after each relevant lab step.

April 10th, 2020 - Updated the instructions and screenshots due to the new Azure UI

October 3rd, 2019 - Updated instructions due to new Azure features

September 24th, 2019 - Updated the lab screenshots and instructions to follow Azure changes

June 3rd, 2019 - Updated App Service screenshots and instructions

April 23rd, 2019 - Updated App Service Plan screenshots to avoid inadvertently selecting the Marketplace App Service plan (preview) interface

December 14th, 2018 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab