In the Azure portal:
- Click on the Create a resource button in the left-hand navigation menu.
- In the marketplace window that opens, search for App Service:
The text in this screenshot is not important. The purpose of this image is to show you what the Azure portal looks like.
- Click on the Web App option, and then click on the Create button.
- In the Web App creation blade, enter the name of your application and create or choose a resource group that the application will be created in, as shown in the screenshot below.
In the past, Azure offered a set of services that were called API App, Mobile App, and Web App. Each of them offered specific features for their target application type. At some point, Microsoft merged all these application types into a single one under the name App Service, but the old services are still available. The only difference between them now is the icon.
- Turn on Application Insights support, then choose your preferred operating system and the Application Insights hosting location.
- Click on the App Service plan/Location area to open the App Service Plan configuration blade and select an existing plan or create a new one:
- Click on the Pricing tier button to select the plan you wish to create. You can filter the pricing tiers shown by selecting the appropriate workload you wish to create the App Service plan for in the toolbar:
You can always change the pricing tier later, increasing or decreasing the feature levels and computing power that your application uses.
- After filling in and choosing all the required settings, click on the Create button and create your Azure App service web app.
- Once the resource deployment is complete, a notification popup will appear. Click on the Go to resource button to open your web app blade:
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- In the main view, you can find details of your application and its status, and buttons for quick operations you can perform on it, such as stopping it or deleting it.
The URL that appears is the base URL of your application and is formatted with the name you chose when creating your App Service (GivenNTakeAPI in this example), followed by azurewebsites.net