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Azure App Service Practical Guide

This repository is a comprehensive practical guide for building, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting web applications on Azure App Service. Use this Start Here section to understand the guide layout and choose the right path for your role.

Guide Scope and Audience

This guide is built for:

  • Developers deploying web applications to Azure App Service
  • SREs and operators running production workloads
  • Troubleshooting engineers resolving incidents under pressure

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

Guide Structure

The documentation is organized into seven core sections:

Section Purpose Entry Link
Start Here Orientation, learning paths, and repository map Start Here
Platform Core App Service architecture and platform behavior Platform
Best Practices Production patterns for security, networking, deployment, scaling, reliability Best Practices
Language Guides End-to-end implementation guides by stack Language Guides
Operations Day-2 operational execution for production Operations
Troubleshooting Methodology, playbooks, KQL, and lab scenarios Troubleshooting
Reference CLI cheatsheet, KQL queries, platform limits Reference 
graph TD
    A[Start Here] --> B[Platform]
    A --> BP[Best Practices]
    A --> C[Language Guides]
    B --> BP
    BP --> D[Operations]
    C --> D
    D --> E[Troubleshooting]
    E --> D
    E --> R[Reference]

How to Use This Guide

  1. Begin with this section to understand navigation and scope.
  2. Read Platform before deep implementation or production hardening.
  3. Review Best Practices for production patterns and anti-patterns.
  4. Select one Language Guide for your runtime stack.
  5. Move to Operations to establish reliability, security, and scale practices.
  6. Use Troubleshooting during incident response and for preventive learning.
  7. Consult Reference for quick CLI, KQL, and limits lookups.

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