Welcome! In this lesson, we'll teach you how to publish your web apps from the previous weeks' activities to Azure! We'll do this using Azure App Service.
Azure is a cloud platform designed to simplify the process of building modern applications. You can host all kinds of applications on Azure!
Azure App Service is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends. This service adds security, load balancing, autoscaling, automated management, and more to your applications. You can also take advantage of its DevOps capabilities, such as continuous deployment from Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker Hub, and other sources, package management, staging environments, custom domain, and TLS/SSL certificates. You can learn more in the Azure App Service overview documentation.
If you are a full time student at an accredited 2 or 4 year university, you can create your account with $100 worth of free Azure credits! For more information on student eligibility, check out this FAQ. Sign up here.
Otherwise, you can still create a free Azure account by following these directions.
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Follow this link to the Azure website to sign up for your free account.
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Click on the green Start Free button.
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Sign in to your Microsoft account if your are not already signed in.
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Agree to the customer agreement
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You will then be asked to provide a credit or debit card. This will make a temporary authorization on your card, but you won’t be charged unless you move to pay-as-you-go pricing.
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Click sign up and you're ready to publish your application!
You can also find these instructions in the Azure documentation.
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Choose the web application you'd like to publish! It can be any of the projects that you created in emails 3, 4, or 5. Open up this project in Visual Studio.
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In Solution Explorer, right-click your ASP.NET Core project and select Publish.
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In Publish, you'll see the following options. Select Azure and click the Next button.
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Choose the Specific target, Azure App Service (Windows). Then, click the Next button.
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If you are not signed in to Azure or if your Visual Studio account is not linked to your Azure account, click Add an account or Sign in. If you are already signed in, select your account.
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Select the + to the right of App Service instances.
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For Subscription, accept the subscription that is listed or select a new one from the drop-down list.
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For Resource group, select New. In New resource group name, enter myResourceGroup and select OK.
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For Hosting Plan, select New.
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In the Hosting Plan: Create new dialog, enter the values specified in the following table:
Setting Suggested value Description Hosting Plan MyFirstAzureWebAppPlan Name of the App Service Plan Location Select the default The datacenter where the app is hosted Size Free Pricing tier This will look like the below.
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Select Create to create the Azure resources. Once the wizard completes, the Azure resources are created for you and you're ready to publish your ASP.NET Core project.
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In the Publish dialog, ensure your new App Service app is selected in App Service instance, then select Finish. Visual Studio creates a publish profile for you for the selected App Service app.
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In the Publish page, select Publish. If you see a warning message, select Continue.Visual Studio builds, packages, and publishes the app to Azure, and then launches the app in the default browser.
Congratulations 🎉 You've just published your web applications! Thank you for joining us on our exploration of web development with .NET. We hope you learned something and had fun!
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