This is called Azure App Service Linux from within Visual Studio 2017, and is one of the publishing targets. When you access this from the Azure portal, it is called as Web App On Linux.
How it works:
- Create an ASP.NET Core web application project in VS 2017.
- Add Docker support from within VS.
- Publish: Select the publishing target as Azure App Service Linux; In a later step, it allows you to create an App Service directly to your Azure subscription.
From within a VS 2017 project, you have an option to configure Continuous Delivery, and voila! You have your release pipeline up and running.
This is probably the simplest and quickest way to put your app in a container under a Linux VM on the Azure cloud. You might have realized that it is a very good option if you have a single-container application. But in our example, we need a multi-container app in a microservices architecture.