Deploy your resources on the new Premium v3 SKU with an ARM template

3 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • October 2, 2020

The Premium v3 hardware tier, previously announced at Microsoft Ignite 2020, is now available for you to deploy your applications to. This new hardware tier introduces new CPU and memory options, enabling deployment of more apps per App Service Plan and better support for large enterprise applications and content management systems. With additional price points for dev/test and production workloads and Reserved Instance Pricing starting November 1st*, Premium v3 is our most cost-effective and performant offering ever.

Portal updates are rolling out now to enable the new hardware option, but you can still deploy resources via ARM templates, Azure CLI and PowerShell. This tutorial walks you through creating a new Resource Group, Pv3 App Service Plan and a Windows Container Web App using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.

Premium v3 is the only hardware option that will be available for Windows container apps as it supports Hyper-V, the chosen security mode for a multi-tenant architecture.

Premium v3 is an option in the regions below. Premium v3 will be available in more regions in the future.

  • West US 2
  • South Central US
  • UK South
  • Southeast Asia
  • West Europe
  • East US
  • East US 2
  • Australia East
  • North Europe
  • Central US
  • East Asia
  • West US
  • Japan East
  • Brazil South
  • Canada Central
  • Austrailia Southeast
  • West Central US
  • UK West
  • Korea Central
  • France Central

Create your JSON template

For those not familiar with ARM Templates, they amount to a JSON file which will define the necessary parameters and resources. The following template creates a Premium v3 App Service Plan and Windows container Web App.

  1. Open a New File in Visual Studio Code or your IDE of choice
  2. Create a JSON file named azuredeploy.json

  3. Copy the below template in its entirety and replace any existing brackets in your new file

    {
    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
    "parameters": {
        "appServiceWebAppName": {
            "type": "String"
        },
        "appServicePlanName": {
            "type": "String"
        }
    },
    "resources": [
        {
            "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
            "name": "[parameters('appServiceWebAppName')]",
            "apiVersion": "2016-03-01",
            "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
            "tags": {
                "[concat('hidden-related:', subscription().id, '/resourcegroups/', resourceGroup().name, '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('appServicePlanName'))]": "empty"
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "[parameters('appServiceWebAppName')]",
                "siteConfig": {
                    "appSettings": [
                        {
                            "name": "WEBSITES_ENABLE_APP_SERVICE_STORAGE",
                            "value": "false"
                        }
                    ],
                    "appCommandLine": "",
                    "windowsFxVersion": "DOCKER|microsoft/iis"
                },
                "serverFarmId": "[concat(subscription().id, '/resourcegroups/', resourceGroup().name, '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('appServicePlanName'))]",
                "hostingEnvironment": ""
            },
            "dependsOn": [
                "[concat('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('appServicePlanName'))]"
            ]
        },
        {
            "type": "Microsoft.Web/serverfarms",
            "sku": {
                "Name": "P1v3",
                "Tier": "PremiumV3"                
            },
            //For Windows code apps, set the kind parameter to "app" 
            "kind": "windows",
            "name": "[parameters('appServicePlanName')]",
            "apiVersion": "2016-09-01",
            "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
            "properties": {
                "name": "[parameters('appServicePlanName')]",
                "workerSizeId": "0",
                "numberOfWorkers": "1",
                // For Windows code apps, set the hyperv parameter to false
                "hyperv": true,                
                "hostingEnvironment": ""
            }
        }
    ]
}

Use Azure CLI to deploy your template

ARM deployments can be managed through the Azure CLI or Powershell. In this example, we will be using the Azure CLI. If you’d rather use Powershell, please see the instructions here.

  1. First, open Powershell and run az login to login to your Azure account
  2. Use the az account set –subscription your-subscription-id to set your desired subscription for your resources
  3. Then, create your resource group using az group create –name my-resources-group-name –location “West Central US”
  4. Once you have created the resource group in the correct location, you can then deploy your ARM template
  5. Enter az deployment group create –name my-template-name –resource-group my-resource-group-name –template-file “path\to\azuredeploy.json”

You will then be prompted to enter string values for the following parameters:

  1. appServiceWebAppName: web-app-name
  2. appServicePlanName: app-service-plan-name

These two values will be the names of the two artifacts of the ARM template, which is creating both your Pv3 App Service Plan and your Web App.

Verify Deployment

Once you have completed the steps above, you can head over to the portal and search for the resource group you just created to verify the resources deployed from the ARM template. You have now successfully deployed to the new Premium v3 SKU creating the following resources:

  1. Resource Group
  2. App Service Plan
  3. Web App

References

Configure Pv3 tier for Azure App Service

  • Reserved Instances are offered in 1 and 3 year options (Starting November 1st, 2020).

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