In this chapter, you've created your production environment on the Azure cloud. You have learned how to deploy your backend services and frontend application to Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a feature-rich solution for hosting and managing your cloud applications, and, in this chapter, you learned how to create it and how charges are made via an App Service plan. You also created an Azure SQL database and connected it to your application. Since performing manual deployment is error-prone, you learned how to create an automatic build and release process using an Azure DevOps project and pipelines, and you also used this technique to automatically deploy your frontend application to the production environment using a CI/CD pipeline that will build and then deploy automatically when there are changes in the source files that are stored in your source control repository. 

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to add elasticity and scalability to your cloud application, and will also learn about some services that will allow you to better manage and control your production environment.