App Service Environment v3 Migration Feature Public Preview
We are happy to announce the availability of the public preview of the App Service Environment (ASE) v3 migration feature. With this feature, you’ll be able ...
2022
2021
Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2021 Q3 Released
The 2021 Q3 update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub is now available. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capabili...
Upcoming Change to App Service Certificate on November 30 2021
Starting November 30 2021, GoDaddy will no longer be issuing certificates for the additional ‘www’ domain when validating domain ownership through HTML web p...
.NET 6 on App Service
We are happy to announce that App Service is rolling out day 0 support for .NET 6.0 applications across all public regions and scenarios on both Windows and ...
How-to setup Continuous Deployment using ACR Tasks with Windows containers
ACR Tasks are a set of Azure CLI command features in Azure Container Registry that can help you automate container image builds. This can be integrated as p...
General availability of Diagnostics tools for App Service on Linux .NET core apps
We are pleased to announce the public availability of Diagnostic tools for App Services Linux for .NET Core apps. With this capability, we now offer built-in...
How to Create a Web App with a Hybrid Connection
Hybrid Connections is a feature in App Service that provides access from your app to a TCP endpoint allowing your app to access application resources in any ...
Managing an App Service Domain
App Service Domain is a domain resource on Azure which integrates with Azure DNS. This allows you to manage all your resources on Azure for when you need to ...
Web App (Windows) Restart Operations
This document covers some common operations that can be performed in an App Service and the effects in terms of availability and restart operations. Restarts...
Overview of the ‘kind’ property for App Service
We get a lot of questions on the App Service kind property, so we are sharing some information to help you understand what it is, what it does, and how to us...
App Service Support for Availability Zones
Availability Zone (AZ) support for public multi-tenant App Service is now available. The official doc has been published to Microsoft Azure docs. AZ support ...
Set up GitHub Actions with the Azure CLI
With GitHub Actions you can set up a workflow to build and deploy your applications whenever there’s a commit on your main branch, or a PR is merged, or even...
Overview of the Various Methods for Deploying Your Infrastructure to App Service
There are a number of ways to deploy infrastructure to Azure, what you pick depends on a number of factors including skill level, experience, job requirement...
Quickstart: Intro to Bicep with Web App and DB
Get started with Azure App Service by deploying an app to the cloud using a Bicep file and Azure CLI in Cloud Shell. Because you use a free App Service tier,...
General Availability of new Azure App Service built-in policies
One of the tools that Azure provides to enforce governance and controls is Azure Policies. By employing Azure policies, IT organizations are able to enforce ...
How to create a Blazor WebAssembly gRPC-Web app using App Service on an Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes Cluster
With the release of the App Service on Kubernetes preview, you can now run App Service on Kubernetes deploying your web apps to Azure Kubernetes Service, or ...
Deploying Linux custom container from private Azure Container Registry
Update 1. November 2021: Since this article was written, we have been busy improving App Service platform in this area. These changes are rollout out now ...
.NET 6 Preview 5 on App Service
In case you missed it, we released support for .NET 6 Preview 4 about 2 weeks ago.
Root CA on App Service
App Service has a list of Trusted Root Certificates which you cannot modify in the multi-tenant variant version of App Service, but you can load your own CA ...
Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2021 Q1 Released
The 2021 Q1 update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub is now available. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capabili...
Preventing crashes due to DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener
Azure App Services has the proactive crash monitoring feature, which checks for process crashes and collects diagnostic data that helps you determine the roo...
.NET 6 Preview on App Service
We are happy to announce that App Service now supports apps targeting .NET 6 Preview 4 across all public regions and scenarios on both Windows and Linux App ...
App Service Environment v3 march to GA
The App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) has been in preview since November 2020. During this time it was made available across most regions, received numerous...
App Service Managed Certificate now in General Availability
App Service Managed Certificate is now in General Availability for both apex domains and sub-domains. This feature allows customers to secure their custom do...
Auto-instrumentation Monitoring for Java and Node.js on App Service (Preview)
We are happy to share that Azure Monitor Application Insights monitoring is now available for Java and Node.js apps on App Service for both Windows and Linux...
Deploying a site with secure backend communication
“Rød grød med fløde” - hmm, what language is that? Keep reading if you want to find out.
Announcing Auto Heal for Linux
We are happy to announce the availability of Auto Heal feature for Linux apps on Azure App Service. Auto Heal allows you to mitigate your apps when it runs i...
Running .NET 6 (Preview) on App Service
.NET 6 is the latest release version that will include the final pieces bringing the best of Core, Framework, Xamarin, and Mono to a unified platform that st...
Upgrade Notifications for App Service (Preview)
The Azure App Service is a PaaS solution offering in Azure which constantly updates the platform. One of the top requests from customers is to receive a noti...
Migrating your .NET 3.1 Applications to .NET 5
.NET 5 is the first major release in the .NET unification journey bringing together the best of Core, Framework, Xamarin, and Mono to provide an improved dev...
Troubleshoot Network/Connectivity issues on App Service & Functions
Troubleshooting networking & connectivity issues when running on App Services just became easier. We are happy to announce the release of our new diagnos...
General Availability of new Access Restriction Features
We are happy to announce the General Availability of a number of improvements to the access restriction feature in App Service.
Deploying a secure, resilient site with a custom domain
In this article I will walk you through setting up a secure, resilient site with Azure App Service using some new features that have recently been released o...
How to use gRPC-Web with Blazor WebAssembly on App Service
gRPC is a modern protocol which uses HTTP/2 to streamline messaging between clients and back-end servers and is an efficient way to connect services that req...
Increased Savings with App Service Offerings
In this article, we will review different App Service offerings with side-by-side comparisons to show how you can save more with App Service. The offerings w...
How-to Host a Python application with Windows containers on App Service
Windows containers on App Service can help you easily modernize your application by making it easier to Lift-and-Shift to App Service and install custom depe...
Custom domain for SCM site
When enabling private endpoint for a web app, both the web app and the Source Control Manager (SCM) site, also sometimes referred to as kudu, are locked down...
App Service Managed Certificate (Preview) Now Supports Apex Domains
App Service Managed Certificate (preview) now lets you secure your apex domains on your web apps at no additional charge. This feature is similar to the curr...
Using Azure Functions with Azure Virtual Network NAT to Avoid SNAT Port Exhaustion
Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) ports are used by App Service to translate outbound connections to public IP addresses. However, there are limitat...
Deploying to Network-secured sites, Part 2
An earlier article explained how to use self-hosted Azure DevOps agents to build and deploy your applications to a web app that has Private Endpoints enabled...
Proactive Crash Monitoring in Azure App Service
A crash of a process happens when the process terminates due to an unhandled exception within the application code. A crash leads to a restart and all the in...
.NET 5 NuGet package restore Incident: App Service Response
Last week an incident occurred that caused .NET 5 NuGet package operations to fail on some Debian-family distributions. Specifically, Debian and Ubuntu maint...
Webinar: Build Smarter and Faster .NET Web Apps
Join our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, February 23 from 1:00 to 2:00pm Pacific Time! Learn how Azure can help you to innovate with your .NET web apps and SQL ...
New App Service + Database create blade (preview)
We are happy to share a new resource create blade for App Service and Azure databases. This new experience, currently in preview, deploys a PostgreSQL or Azu...
Java, Tomcat, and JBoss EAP version updates
The latest App Service releases included new Java, Tomcat and JBoss EAP versions. Windows New Tomcat versions 9.0.38 8.5.58 N...
Migrate from Windows Azure Pack Websites to Azure App Service
As Windows Azure Pack Web Sites v2 heads towards the end of extended support in 2022, it is important for customers to plan to migrate their workloads from t...
Deploying to Network-secured sites
With the recently-announced Private Endpoints integration you can block inbound access from the internet to your web app. Before this integration, developers...
2020
Using GitHub Actions for Python Applications
GitHub announced CI/CD support through GitHub Actions which became generally available at GitHub Universe in November 2019. Since then, many Azure services h...
New App Service Anti-virus Logs in Public Preview
App Service has added support for anti-virus scans which can send logs to a Storage account, Log Analytics workspace, and Even Hubs for better application mo...
App Service Environment v3 public preview
We are happy to announce the public preview of the App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3). The ASEv3 project is a realization of several years of infrastructure ...
Hosting .NET 5 Applications on Azure App Service
With the newly announced launch of .NET 5 General Availability, App Service is offering immediate support for .NET 5 via Early Access stack. The new Early A...
NAT Gateway and app integration
The Azure App Service has quite a few networking integration capabilities but, until now, did not support a dedicated outbound address. We are very happy to ...
Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2020 Q3 Released
The 2020 Q3 update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub is now available. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capabili...
.NET 5 on App Service
We are happy to announce that App Service now supports .NET 5 applications across all public regions and scenarios on both Windows and Linux App Service plan...
A/B Testing with App Service, Part 3: Analyzing the telemetry
This is the third article in our guide for A/B testing with App Service. The first article shows how to set up your client-side project. The second article s...
Docker Hub authenticated pulls on App Service
Starting November 1st, 2020. Docker will be introducing rate limits on unauthenticated pull requests from Docker Hub. These limits are based on the account ...
General Availability of Private Endpoint for Web App
We are happy to announce Private Endpoint for Web App is now Generally Available in all Azure public regions, for both Windows and Linux apps, containerized ...
CPU Diagnostics Part 1: Identify and Diagnose High CPU issues
This is part one of our deep dive on Diagnosing CPU utilization issues in Azure App Service. In this post, you will learn about measuring CPU utilization for...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 7: Multi-tier web applications
The Azure App Service is offered as two deployment types: the multi-tenant service and the App Service Environment. In the multi-tenant service there are tho...
Deploy your resources on the new Premium v3 SKU with an ARM template
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...
Security for Windows containers using Hyper-V Isolation
Windows containers on App Service enable you to modernize your Windows applications so you can bring along dependencies or lift-and-shift your current applic...
Public Preview of the new Deployment Center
The first version of the App Service Deployment Center has been generally available since late 2018. The Deployment Center gives a centralized view of all th...
Public Preview of JBoss EAP on App Service
For several years, Red Hat and Microsoft have partnered to create cloud solutions that enable enterprises to achieve more. Today, we are happy to announce th...
App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) public preview pre-announcement
The App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) project is a realization of several years of infrastructure development to enable a best-in-class, network isolated ap...
Troubleshoot ASP.NET assembly loading failures using Fusion Logging
ASP.NET Framework has fusion Assembly Binding logging (aka Fusion Logging) which allows you to debug assembly load failures in your .NET applications. Fusion...
AppServiceAppLogs is now available for ASP .NET apps on Windows
We have added a new log type for ASP .NET web apps on Windows (ASP .NET Core support is not yet supported). The log type, AppServiceAppLogs, captures your ap...
Health Check is now Generally Available
App Service makes it easy to automatically scale your apps to multiple instances when traffic increases. This increases your app’s throughput, but what if th...
A/B Testing with App Service, Part 2: Server-side configuration
This is the second article in our guide for A/B testing with App Service. See the first article for more information about A/B testing and how to set up your...
GitHub Actions integration is now Generally Available
A year ago we announced a GitHub Action to deploy your web apps to Azure App Service. In April, we added GitHub Actions as an option in the Deployment Center...
Netflix Eureka on App Service
Netflix Eureka is a REST based middleware designed for discovery and load balancing of web applications. For those who already have a Netflix Eureka app, thi...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 6: Securing your web app
The Azure App Service is offered as two deployment types: the multi-tenant service and the App Service Environment. In the multi-tenant service there are tho...
Crash Monitoring in Azure App Service
Application crashes happen. A crash is when an exception in your code goes un-handled and terminates the process. These unhandled exceptions are also known a...
Disabling basic auth on App Service
App Service provides access for FTP and WebDeploy clients to connect using the basic auth credentials found in the site’s publish profile. These APIs are gre...
A/B Testing with App Service, Part 1: Client-side configuration
In software development, A/B testing is the process of comparing two versions of a webpage or application to determine which version improves a metric or KPI...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 5: Add and Secure a Custom Domain on Your Azure App Service Web App
This article is the fifth part of the Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have completed the first article.
PHP Minor Version Update for August 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 4: Migrate Applications to Azure App Service
In this installment of Zero to Hero with App Service, learn how to migrate your existing applications to App Service. If you followed parts one, two, and thr...
Certificate Authorities revoking non-compliant certificates, potentially impacting your App Service
If you have received a notification from Azure about potentially being impacted by the certificate revocation issue, follow these steps to avoid application ...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 3: Releasing to Production
This is the third article in the Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have already completed the previous two articles.
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 2: Continuous Integration and Delivery
This is the second article in our Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have completed Part 1. In the last article you created an Ap...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 1: Setting Up
In times of rapid change, developers and IT decision-makers must quickly adjust to a drastically evolving landscape. Successful organizations use managed clo...
New Log Types for Azure Monitor Integration
We have recently added two new log types to our preview of App Service’s Integration with Azure Monitor. The two new log types are:
Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps enables you to host, build, plan and test your code with complimentary workflows. Using Azure Pipelines as one of these workflows allows you to ...
General Availability of VNet Integration for Linux Web Apps
Regional VNet Integration is now Generally Available for both Linux and Windows apps. The feature behaves the same for apps on either operating system. This ...
General Availability of Linux Hybrid Connections
We are happy to announce Hybrid Connections for Linux apps is now Generally Available. Hybrid Connections have been available for Windows apps for a few year...
.NET Framework 4.8 is coming to App Service
The .NET Framework 4.8 update is a non-breaking in-place upgrade on App Service. No updates are required to existing applications.
Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with GitHub Actions
Github Actions enables you to easily automate any part of your development workflow. GitHub Actions are defined as YAML files in the .github/workflows direct...
App Service //Build 2020 Recap
This year, Microsoft Build is entirely online. Live and pre-recorded sessions are available for anyone to view. This article is a recap of the sessions from ...
The Ultimate Guide to Running Healthy Apps in the Cloud
Modern-day data centers are extremely complex and have many moving parts. VMs can restart or move, systems are upgraded, and file servers are scaled up and d...
App Service integration with Event Grid
We are happy to announce the Public Preview of App Service’s integration with Azure Event Grid. Event Grid is a publish/subscribe messaging service that allo...
Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2020 Q2 Released
We have released the 2020 Q2 update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capabili...
PHP Minor Version Update for July 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Reduce costs and increase agility with App Service and API Management
In times of rapid change, developers and IT decision-makers must quickly adjust to a drastically evolving landscape. Successful organizations use managed clo...
Running .NET 5 (preview) on App Service
.NET 5 is the latest version to expand the capabilities of .NET by taking the best of Core, Framework, Xamarin, and Mono to create a unified platform for imp...
Announcing Application Insights integration with App Service Diagnostics
App Services Diagnostics is a powerful tool that allows you to troubleshoot and mitigate issues within your application. The rich set of tools under the App ...
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 LTS General Availability on App Service
App Service is announcing GA of .NET Core 3.1 LTS on Linux & Windows today. If you are running .NET Core 3.0 applications, which had its end-of-life dat...
Get started with GitHub Actions and App Service
Last year we shared an article that demonstrated how to deploy your application to App Service using GitHub Actions. We are excited to share that we have add...
PremiumV2 tier for older App Service deployments
The PremiumV2 hardware tier is now available for older deployments of App Service where it was not previously available. A few years ago Azure App Service be...
A New Look for App Service Diagnostics
We are launching a new experience in App Service Diagnostics to help you more easily and quickly diagnose and solve problems of your application.
Public Preview of Private Link on App Service
We are happy to announce the public preview of Private Link for Azure App Service. This preview is available in limited regions for all PremiumV2 Windows and...
Important update for Tinfoil security
We’re announcing that Tinfoil Security addon will no longer be available through App Service.
Announcing public preview for Azure Functions portal UX
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Announcing general availability of VNet Integration with Windows Web Apps
App Service customers often need to access resources in their Azure Virtual Networks. We launched VNet Integration to address this issue in 2014, but our cus...
Run Wildfly on App Service
Wildfly is an open-source application runtime for Java applications, and the upstream project of JBoss EAP. We recently added a new Azure Sample that shows h...
PHP Minor Version Update for February 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 Released
This afternoon we released the eighth update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key...
2019
App Service Environment Support for Availability Zones
App Service has GA’d App Service Environment (ASE) support for deploying into Availability Zones (AZ). Customers can choose to optionally deploy internal lo...
Azure CLI for ASE and Access Restriction
Based on customer requests we have added support for automating App Service Environment operations using the Azure CLI. With the 2.0.77 release you can creat...
PHP Minor Version Update for January 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service at Microsoft Ignite 2019
During Microsoft Ignite 2019, this week, these are the Azure App Service sessions to look out for in the session catalog.
Secure your Custom Domains at no cost with App Service Managed Certificates (preview)
Free Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Azure App Service is now in preview! This has been one of the most highly requested features of the service since its...
App Service Integration with Azure Monitor (Preview)
We are happy to announce that App Service has new and improved integration with Azure Monitor (preview). You can now send your logs from Windows or Linux App...
Mitigate your CPU problems before they happen
Automatically mitigate CPU anomalies and save yourself from another late-night servicing call.
Use ARM templates to swap deployment slots
You can now use ARM templates to swap deployment slots.
PHP Minor Version Update for September 2019
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 7 Released
This afternoon we released the seventh update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key c...
Announcing GitHub Actions for App Service
Last week GitHub announced the preview of GitHub Actions with built-in CI/CD; watch the announcement here. These actions, defined in YAML files, allow you to...
Restore App Service domains within 30 days
If the domain was deleted within the past 30 days, you restore it by re-creating the resource under the same subscription and resource group.
Get visibility into your app’s dependencies with Navigator
Application downtime can be dreadful, especially when the app is handling mission-critical load. There could be countless causes for your app’s downtime rang...
Azure Key Vault References with Spring Apps
Securely store and access your connection strings with minimal code changes.
Removing Easy Tables and Easy APIs from Azure App Service
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PHP Minor Version Update for July 2019
Latest version updates to PHP
PHP Minor Version Update for August 2019
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 6 Released
This afternoon we released the sixth update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key cap...
App Service plan Density Check
App Service plan defines the compute resource assigned to run your App Service. The pricing tier of your App Service plan determines the compute power and fe...
Announcing the new change analysis experience in App Service Diagnostics
In a fast-paced development environment, sometimes it is difficult to keep track of all the changes made to your app… let alone pinpoint a change that caused...
//DevTalk - App Service Certificate - New Sync and Export experiences
App Service Certificates have been a very popular feature among App Service customers. However, our customers often get confused about the sync scenarios bet...
Changes to Routing Rules UX
We will soon be rolling out a series of UX and ARM API changes that will alter the behavior of routing rules for testing in production. After May 22nd, you w...
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 5 Released
This morning we released the fifth update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capab...
The Data Connections will be removed from Web App menu
Data connections provides a guided experience to easily add a connection string to a new or existing SQL Azure Database or Azure Storage Account.
The Zend Z-Ray debugging feature will be discontinued in Azure App Service on June 7, 2019
The Z-Ray PHP debugging feature will soon be discontinued in App Service. This shouldn’t affect the App Service service-level agreement (SLA) or the runtime ...
App Service Environment Support for Availability Zones (Preview)
App Service Environment (ASE) support for Availability Zones (AZ) is now in preview. Customers can deploy internal load balancer (ILB) ASEs into a spe...
Python 2.7 Now Available for App Service on Linux
Python 2.7 has been added to the public preview of Python on Azure App Service (Linux). With this recent addition developers can enjoy the productivit...
2018
2017
2016
Upgrading Python on Azure App Service
App Service is Microsoft Azure’s platform-as-a-service offering for web apps, whether they are sites accessed through a browser, REST APIs used by your own c...
Offline Sync with Azure Mobile Apps and Apache Cordova
How to do Offline Sync with Azure Mobile Apps and Apache Cordova
Azure App Service and ASP.NET Core
Getting started with ASP.NET Core 1.0 on Azure App Service
Cross-Post App Service Auth and Azure AD B2C
How to use Easy Auth to add Azure AD B2C capabilities to your App Service Web App.
Adjusting the HTTP call with Azure Mobile Apps
How to adjust the HTTP call for Android, iOS, JavaScript, and .Net with Azure Mobile Apps
Updates to WebJobs Portal experience
Improvements to the WebJobs Portal UI. Browse logs and set up triggers.
Introducing Failure History (appLens) for Azure App Service Web App
Introducing Failure History (appLens) for Azure App Service Web App: A tool to visualize various data points in few seconds!
Deploying Azure Web App Certificate through Key Vault
How to deploy an App Service Certificate through Azure Key Vault
Azure App Service Web App troubleshooting blade and tools
How to use the Azure App Service troubleshooting blade and tools
Disable Session affinity cookie (ARR cookie) for Azure web apps
How to disable the session affinity cookie on Azure App Service
Speed up your Joomla Web App on Azure Web Apps
How to speed up your Joomla app on Azure App Service
App Service supports Node.js v6
Azure App Service now supports Node v6
Azure Functions The Journey
The Journey of the Azure Functions product and team.