Basic tasks to manage Azure Web Apps

As we have covered the main topics, namely creating Azure Web Apps, configuring web application with programming language specific settings, deployment slots – development, QA, UAT, staging, and production, deployment credentials management for FTP, Azure Web Apps monitoring, configuring role-based access for secure access of Azure Web Apps, and scaling Azure Web Apps, let's now see how we can perform some other tasks to manage and maintain Azure Web Apps.

Microsoft Azure Web Apps properties

There are specific scenarios where we may need to connect to some web services available behind the firewall and installed on-premise. 

To consider security, we need to whitelist IP addresses from the sources where the request is originating:

We can use OUTBOUND IP ADDRESSES to whitelist behind the firewall, so applications hosted on Azure Web Apps can access the resources available on-premise.

 

Microsoft Azure Web Apps – App Service plan

Azure App Service plan (ASP) is...