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Creating a website hosted on Azure

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Creating a website hosted on Azure

As a technologist, you can specialize in a particular area. You may be a storage manager or virtualization expert, or you may have turned to security. If you are a student, you may not have found the area that interests you most yet.
Regardless of the role, many people start working with the cloud and first create a website. Here you will deploy a website hosted on App Service.
Let's start in simple terms and then bring our first website to life.

What is App Service?

Azure App Service is an HTTP-based service that allows you to create and host many different types of web-based solutions without managing infrastructure. For instance, you can have web applications, portable backbends, and Restful APIs in an assortment of upheld programming dialects. Applications developed in .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP or Python can be run on both Windows and Linux-based applications and are easily scaled.
We aim to create the website in less time than you spend at lunch. So we will not write any code and instead distribute a predefined application from Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

What is Microsoft Azure Marketplace?

Microsoft Azure Marketplace is an online store that hosts applications certified and optimized to run on Azure. A wide variety of applications are provided, ranging from AI + Machine Learning to Web applications. As you will see in a few minutes, deployments from the store are done using a wizard-style user interface via the Azure portal. This user interface makes it easy to evaluate different solutions.
For our website, we will be using one of the WordPress implementation options from Azure Marketplace.

Creating resources in Azure

Normally, the first thing we will do is create a resource group  that will accommodate everything we need to  create. The resource group enables us to manage all the services, disks, network interfaces and other items that can make up our solution as a single unit. We can utilize the Azure gateway to make and deal with our answer's asset gatherings. However, keep in mind that you can also manage resources via the command line using the Azure CLI. Azure CLI is a useful option when the process needs to be automated in the future.
You  will use the pre-created [sandbox resource group name] resource group in the free Azure sandbox environment. Therefore, you do not need to follow this step.

Choosing a location

The free sandbox allows you to source in a subset of Azure's global regions. Select a region from this list when creating a resource:

  • westus
  • southcentralus
  • centralus
  • eastus
  • westeurope
  • southeastasia
  • japaneast
  • brazilsouth
  • australiasoutheast
  • centralindia

I hope this will helpful for you guys.