Is there any way to scale up the azure webapp vertically (change app service plan) automatically?

Question

Is there a way to automatically scale up an Azure Web App vertically (by changing the App Service Plan)? Has this functionality been completely removed by Azure?

I attempted to use an Azure Automation Account with a PowerShell Runbook, but encountered errors. Additionally, the available articles and commands found online reference deprecated commands.

I need this functionality to downscale the app service plan during now working hours.

Answer 1

Hi Rahul,

There's no automatic way to scale up/down, but you can do it using script. For example, say you wanted to scale down to Basic B1 during off hours, sample code below:

Set-AzAppServicePlan -ResourceGroupName my-resource-group -Name ASP-myappservice-plan -Tier Basic -WorkerSize Small

Right before working hours you could use below command to scale up to Basic B3:

Set-AzAppServicePlan -ResourceGroupName my-resource-group -Name ASP-myappservice-plan -Tier Basic -WorkerSize Large

One thing to keep in mind is before you attempt to scale down to a lower plan you must disable/remove features that are not supported by the lower tier, if you are using them. And then when scaling back up to higher tier reinstate/configure those features. For example, custom domains are not supported by Free tier, so before you can scale down to Free you need to remove binding(s) first.

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Thanks.

-TP

Answer 2

Hey, thanks! The command worked.

Could someone also help me with a similar PowerShell command to scale up an instance of Application Gateway V1? I'll be using these commands in an Azure Automation Account.