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...

.NET 5 on App Service

1 minute read • By Byron Tardif • November 10, 2020

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...

Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with Azure DevOps

12 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • June 25, 2020

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 ...

.NET Framework 4.8 is coming to App Service

1 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • June 9, 2020

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

10 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • June 9, 2020

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...

Running .NET 5 (preview) on App Service

3 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • April 24, 2020

.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 .NET Core 3.1 LTS General Availability on App Service

1 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • April 16, 2020

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...

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zero to hero

Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 7: Multi-tier web applications

5 minute read • By Christina Compy • October 5, 2020

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...

Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 6: Securing your web app

6 minute read • By Christina Compy • August 14, 2020

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...

Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 5: Add and Secure a Custom Domain on Your Azure App Service Web App

5 minute read • By Yutang Lin • July 28, 2020

This article is the fifth part of the Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have completed the first article.

Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 4: Migrate Applications to Azure App Service

3 minute read • By Gaurav Seth • July 20, 2020

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...

Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 3: Releasing to Production

4 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • July 7, 2020

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

5 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • June 29, 2020

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

3 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • June 29, 2020

In times of rapid change, developers and IT decision-makers must quickly adjust to a drastically evolving landscape. Successful organizations use managed clo...

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Azure Stack

Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2020 Q3 Released

1 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • November 12, 2020

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...

Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2020 Q2 Released

2 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • May 6, 2020

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...

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 Released

1 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • January 13, 2020

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...

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 7 Released

less than 1 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • August 29, 2019

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...

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 6 Released

less than 1 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • May 28, 2019

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...

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 5 Released

less than 1 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • February 28, 2019

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...

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Azure Portal

Announcing public preview for Azure Functions portal UX

2 minute read • By Byron Tardif • March 13, 2020

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Changes to Routing Rules UX

1 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • March 18, 2019

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...

The Data Connections will be removed from Web App menu

1 minute read • By Byron Tardif • February 26, 2019

Data connections provides a guided experience to easily add a connection string to a new or existing SQL Azure Database or Azure Storage Account.

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monitoring

AppServiceAppLogs is now available for ASP .NET apps on Windows

3 minute read • By Yutang Lin • August 31, 2020

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...

New Log Types for Azure Monitor Integration

2 minute read • By Yutang Lin • June 25, 2020

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:

App Service Integration with Azure Monitor (Preview)

4 minute read • By Jason Freeberg and Yutang Lin • November 1, 2019

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...

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windows containers

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...

Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with Azure DevOps

12 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • June 25, 2020

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 ...

Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with GitHub Actions

10 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • June 9, 2020

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...

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A/B Testing

A/B Testing with App Service, Part 3: Analyzing the telemetry

4 minute read • By Jason Freeberg and Shubham Dhond • October 20, 2020

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...

A/B Testing with App Service, Part 2: Server-side configuration

4 minute read • By Jason Freeberg and Shubham Dhond • August 24, 2020

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...

A/B Testing with App Service, Part 1: Client-side configuration

8 minute read • By Jason Freeberg, Shubham Dhond • August 3, 2020

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...

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devops

Azure CLI for ASE and Access Restriction

1 minute read • By Mads Damgård • December 9, 2019

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...

Announcing GitHub Actions for App Service

4 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • August 10, 2019

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...

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best practice

The Ultimate Guide to Running Healthy Apps in the Cloud

11 minute read • By Khaled Zayed • May 15, 2020

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...

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ASE

App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) public preview pre-announcement

1 minute read • By Christina Compy • September 22, 2020

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...

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Windows containers

Security for Windows containers using Hyper-V Isolation

1 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • September 29, 2020

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...

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Docker

Docker Hub authenticated pulls on App Service

1 minute read • By Jeff Martinez • October 15, 2020

Starting November 1st, 2020. Docker will be introducing rate limits on unauthenticated pull requests from Docker Hub. These limits are based on the account ...

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Python

Using GitHub Actions for Python Applications

7 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • December 11, 2020

GitHub announced CI/CD support through GitHub Actions which became generally available at GitHub Universe in November 2019. Since then, many Azure services h...

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Deployment

Deploying to Network-secured sites

5 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • January 4, 2021

With the recently-announced Private Endpoints integration you can block inbound access from the internet to your web app. Before this integration, developers...

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Networking

Deploying to Network-secured sites

5 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • January 4, 2021

With the recently-announced Private Endpoints integration you can block inbound access from the internet to your web app. Before this integration, developers...

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Windows Azure Pack

Migrate from Windows Azure Pack Websites to Azure App Service

3 minute read • By Andrew Westgarth • January 6, 2021

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...

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Java

Java, Tomcat, and JBoss EAP version updates

less than 1 minute read • By Jason Freeberg • January 6, 2021

The latest App Service releases included new Java, Tomcat and JBoss EAP versions. Windows New Tomcat versions 9.0.38 8.5.58 N...

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