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Azure App Service Practical Guide

Comprehensive, practical documentation for building, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting web applications on Azure App Service.

This site is organized as a learning and operations guide so you can move from fundamentals to production troubleshooting with clear, repeatable workflows.

  • New to App Service?

    Start with platform fundamentals and deploy your first app in under 30 minutes.

    Start Here

  • Running Production Apps?

    Apply battle-tested patterns for security, scaling, deployment, and reliability.

    Best Practices

  • Investigating an Incident?

    Jump straight to hypothesis-driven playbooks with real KQL queries and evidence patterns.

    Troubleshooting

Section Purpose
Start Here Orientation, learning paths, and repository map.
Platform Understand core App Service architecture, lifecycle, scaling, and networking.
Best Practices Apply production patterns for security, networking, deployment, scaling, and reliability.
Language Guides Follow end-to-end implementation tracks for Python, Node.js, Java, and .NET.
Operations Run production workloads with scaling, security, health, and cost practices.
Troubleshooting Diagnose startup, performance, outbound network, and reliability issues quickly.
Reference Use quick lookups for CLI, limits, KQL, and diagnostic utilities.

For orientation and study order, start with Start Here.

Learning flow

flowchart TD
    A[Start Here] --> B[Platform]
    B --> C[Best Practices]
    C --> D[Language Guides]
    D --> E[Operations]
    E --> F[Troubleshooting]
    F --> G[Reference]

Scope and disclaimer

This is an independent community project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.

Primary product reference: Azure App Service overview

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