Exercise 5 – creating an Azure web app

In this section, we will look at the steps to create a web app.

Follow these steps to create a web app:

1. Log into the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com. Alternatively, you can use the Azure desktop app: https://portal.azure.com/App/Download.
2. In the search bar, type app service (or web app) and click on App Services from the list of services.
3. From the Virtual machines blade, click on + Create and then Virtual machine. This option should be at the top menu of the blade.
4. From the Basics tab, set the Project Details and Instance Details settings as required. Then, set App Service Plan to use an existing one or create new App Service plan, and set the size as required.
5. Click Next: Deployment.
6. From the Deployment tab, leave the settings as is.
7. Click Next: Monitoring.
8. From the Monitoring tab, enable Application Insights.
9. Click Next: Tags and add any tags as required. Then, click Next: Review + create.
10. On the Review + create tab, review your settings; you may go back to the previous tabs and make any edits if required. Once you have confirmed your settings, click Create.
11. You will receive a notification stating that the resource group was created successfully.
12. From the App Services blade, you can see the web app that was created:

Figure 4.28 – App Services

In this exercise, we successfully created an App Service web app.

This section covered hands-on labs. Now, let’s summarize this chapter.

Summary

This chapter provided complete coverage of the Describe Core Azure Services AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area.

In this chapter, you learned about various skills that will provide you with the confidence to explain and discuss numerous aspects of the core Azure services with a business or technical audience. This includes describing the benefits and usage of Azure Marketplace, as well as Azure resources such as compute, storage, network, and data.

Knowledge beyond the exam’s content was also provided to help you prepare for a real-world, day-to-day Azure-focused role.

The chapter concluded by providing some hands-on exercises that brought all the skill areas that were covered in this chapter together. The next chapter will outline the core resources available in Azure, such as compute, network, storage, and data. We will also look at the Azure Marketplace.