Introduction
Azure App Service, one of the most used among the Services offered by Azure. When the requirement is to host web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back-ends, Azure App Service is the HTTP-based solution. Apps hosted on Azure App Service can be integrated with on-premises or cloud services. It supports Windows and Linux based environments to run and scale the applications.
Azure App Services is so popular due to the following reasons:
- Provision and deploy web and mobile apps in seconds
- Create compelling apps for iOS, Android, and Windows
- Automate business processes with a visual design experience
Also add various Microsoft Azure capabilities for your application, such as
- Security
- Load Balancing
- Autoscaling
- DevOps capabilities ( Azure DevOps CI/CD, GitHub, Docker Hub, and more).
App Service Key Features
- Support for multiple languages and frameworks (ASP. NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, and Python)
- Support for DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub, BitBucket, and more) High availability
- Third-party integrations (SAP , SalesForce, Facebook, etc.,)
- Security
- It is a serverless service
Below are the various application services available
- Web Application
- API Application
- Mobile App
- Logic App
- High availability with automatic patching
- Continuous deployment with Git, TFS, GitHub
- Deployment slots, production testing, web jobs, and continuous integration
- Gallery of web applications : WordPress, Umbraco, Joomla, Drupal
- Integrate with SaaS and enterprise applications
- Generate client proxies or APIs in the language of your choice
- Au tomato version control and application API implementation
- Secure APIs with Active Directory, single sign-on, and OAuth
- Share API internally with the organizational gallery
- Enterprise-grade security
- Simple access control
- Hybrid connectivity
- Automatic SDK generation
- Go to the Azure portal and select New
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Serverless360 BAM to achieve end-to-end tracking
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Summary
This blog highlights the key features of the Azure API Application
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In this article, we will discuss the two most widely used app services (web app, app API) in web development. You need to understand the important capabilities of these two services to make an informed decision when hosting your web applications.
What are Azure Web Apps?
Web apps are the computing resources provided by Azure to host a website or web app on App Service. With web apps, get a fully managed platform to build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web apps in seconds.
Here are the main web app features:
Provides scalable, enterprise-ready systems along with continuous integration that can be built using application services. Web development framework support is also open.
Multiple languages and frameworks: App Service has first-class support for ASP.NET official site, Node.js, Java, PHP and Python. You can also run executables on services such as virtual machines.
Global scale with high availability: Scale up or down manually or automatically. Host your apps anywhere in Microsoft’s global data center infrastructure, and the App Service SLA promises high availability.
Visual Studio integration: Dedicated Visual Studio tools streamline the work of building, deploying, and debugging.
APIs and mobile features – App Service provides turnkey CORS support for RESTful API scenarios and simplifies mobile app scenarios by enabling authentication, offline data sync, push notifications, and more.
Serverless Code – Run a piece of code or script on demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure and pay only for the compute time your code uses.
What is Web API in Azure?
Azure Web API Apps, one of the features of Azure App Service that provides a rich platform and ecosystem for creating, consuming, and distributing APIs in the cloud and across facilities.
Key achievements with Azure API Apps are as follows: Before:
The applications APIs also offer:
Application APIs enhance the experience of developing, deploying, publishing, consuming, managing, and monetizing RESTful web APIs. Current APIs can take advantage of the API Apps platform without change, can connect to Azure Active Directory, allows easy connection to SaaS platforms, and can be consumed by Logic Apps. The API app is specifically for developing RESTful APIs with features like Swagger out of the box. Developers can also include built-in support for different enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle, etc.
Bring your existing API as-is – You don’t have to change any of the code in your APIs existing ones to take advantage of API applications: simply implement your code in an API application.
Simple Access Control: Protect an API application from unauthenticated access without changes to your code. Built-in authentication services protect APIs for access by other services or by clients representing users. Supported identity providers include Azure Active Directory, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft Account. Customers can use the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) or the Mobile App SDK.
How do I create an Azure API application?
To create an Azure API application Azure API, the user needs to
