book1: Design and implement Az App Service Web Apps

Question 1

Create app service plan (PS / CLI)

Answer 1

PS:
> New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name fooRG -Location foo
> New-AzureRmAppServicePlan -ResourceGroupName fooRG -Name foo -Location “East US” -Tier Free -WorkerSize Small

CLI:
> az group create – location foo –name fooRG
> az appservice plan create –resource-group fooRG –name foo –location eastus –sku P1

Question 2

New-AzureRmAppServicePlan -Tier ____ (6)

Answer 2

• Free
• Shared
• Basic
• Standard
• Premium (Premium V2)
• Isolated (aka App Service Environment (ASE)

Question 3

New-AzureRmAppServicePlan -WorkerSize ____ (3)

Answer 3

• Small
• Medium
• Large
• ExtraLarge … available in tool, but not documented…?

Question 4

az appservice plan create –sku ___ (5)

Answer 4

1. F1 (Free),
2. D1 (Shared),
3. B1, B2, B3 (Basic small, medium, large)
4. S1, S2, S3 (Standard)
5. P1 | P1V2, P2 | P2V2, P3 | P3V2 (Premium | Premium V2)
6. I1, I2, I3 (Isolated) # not currently supported via CLI

Default: B1.

Question 5

Create web app (PS / CLI)

Answer 5

PS:
> New-AzureRmWebApp -ResourceGroupName fooRG -Location “East US” -AppServicePlan foo -Name foo

CLI:
> az webapp create –resource-group fooRG –plan foo –name foo

Question 6

Instances & Slots allowed per tier

Answer 6

• Free, Shared: 1 instance, 1 slot
• Basic: 3 instances manually scaled, 1 slot
• Standard: 10 instances, 5 slots
• Premium: 20 instances, 20 slots
• Isolated: 100 instances, ? slots

Question 7

Get a ref to the prod slot

Answer 7

$productionSite = Get-AzureRmWebAppSlot -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName `
-Name $webAppName -Slot $productionSlotName

Question 8

Create a slot with cloned settings (PS / CLI)

Answer 8

PS:
> New-AzureRmWebAppSlot -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName `
-Name $webAppName -Slot $stagingSlotName `
-AppServicePlan $appServicePlanName -SourceWebApp $productionSite

CLI:
> az webapp deployment slot create –resource-group $resourceGroupName \
–name $webAppName –slot $stagingSlotName \
–configuration-source $productionSite

Question 9

Steps of Multi phase swap

Answer 9

AKA: Swap w/ preview.

• apply destination settings to source
• test source
• if ok, proceed w/ swap of source -> destination
• if not ok, cancel swap operation

Question 10

update webapp service plan (PS)

Answer 10

Set-AzureRmAppServicePlan -ResourceGroupName fooRG -Name foo-webapp -Tier Standard -WorkerSize Small