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Beginners guide to Azure App Service

This is a step by step guide on how you can set up your Microsoft Azure app service , developers will benefit greatly from Azure App Services

What is Microsoft Azure App Service?

Azure app services are quite strong and can get you up and running in a matter of minutes. They offer a slew of incredible features, including (auto)scaling, simple authentication, offline sync (for Mobile Apps), hybrid connections, and much more.

kindly follow through and let me know if you experience any challenge, let's dig in:

Okay, so the first step is to create a Microsoft account (if you don't already have one, you can use ANY name of your choice.

I already have one, so I'll skip that part, once you create your outlook account(Microsoft account), you can then proceed to:

portal.azure.com this is basically where it all happens, log in with your existing outlook account and proceed

On the homepage, select "App service"- see image below:

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Remember, we are creating a new app service, so what we need is to click "create"

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Quickly fill the details such as:

Subscription
Select a resource group - you can leave the default value
Web Name (input a befitting name of your choice)
Runstack Time should be '.NET 3L'

The next tags e.g Deployment, Networking, Monitoring etc.
please use the default values an proceed to "review + create"

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Please give it a few minutes to deploy, after the deployment is successful, you have successfully created an app service on the Azure portal.

The next part of this post is to walk you through , how to deploy an Api using your new App Service

This is a little technical so please stay with me, I'll be walking you through in the next posts.

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