Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Web Apps for Developers

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Foreword
Introduction
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Chapter 1 Microsoft Azure Web Apps
	Introduction to Azure Resource Groups
	Introduction to App Service Plans
	Create an Azure Web App using the Azure portal
		Create a Web App and SQL Database
		Add an Azure Redis Cache to the Azure Resource Group
	Create an Azure Web App using Visual Studio
		Create a Web App by using Server Explorer
		Create a Web App by using the ASP.NET Web Application template
		Create a Web App using the Azure Resource Group template
	Connection strings and application settings
		Set connection strings and app settings in the environment
		Retrieve connection strings and app settings from the environment
		How connection strings and app settings are stored in the environment
	Add a deployment slot for an Azure Web App
		Scale to a Standard App Service Plan
		Add a deployment slot
	Set up continuous deployment with Visual Studio Online
		Introduction to Visual Studio Online
		Set up deployment from source control to a staging slot
		Add Visual Studio solution to source control
		Commit Visual Studio solution to source control
	Role Based Access Control
		Subscription-level roles
		Resource-level roles
	Summary
Chapter 2 Azure WebJobs
	Introduction to Azure WebJobs
	Create an Azure WebJob
		Publish a web job from Visual Studio
		Invoke a web job manually
		View the WebJobs Dashboard
	Create a web job from the Azure portal
	Introduction to the Azure WebJobs SDK
		WebJobs SDK .NET libraries and dependencies
		Create a web job designed for use with Azure Storage Queues
		Examine the web job project and code
		Publish a web job to Azure
		Examine new features in the WebJobs Dashboard
	Summary
Chapter 3 Scaling Azure Web Apps
	Scale Up
	Scale Out
		Dealing with the challenges of scaling out a web app
	Scaling web apps using Autoscale
		Autoscale based on CPU percentage
		Autoscale based on a recurring schedule
		Understanding Autoscale rules
		Turn off Autoscale
	Scale globally with Azure Traffic Manager
		Create a Traffic Manager profile
		Additional services for achieving massive scale
	Scaling WebJobs
	Summary
Chapter 4 Monitoring and diagnostics
	Introduction to diagnostic logs
		Enable application and site diagnostic logs
		Store log files in the web app file system
		Store log files in Azure Storage
	Access and download diagnostic log files
		Access log files stored in the web app file system
		Access log files from Azure Storage
	Log streaming
		Log streaming using Visual Studio
		Log streaming using command-line tools
	Remote debugging
	Diagnostics as a Service (DaaS)
		Install the Diagnostics as a Service site extension
		Run DaaS
		View DaaS analysis reports
	Site Admin Tools/Kudu
		Install the Site Admin Tools/Kudu
		Run the Site Admin Tools
	Monitor web app endpoints externally using web tests
		Create a URL ping web test
	Monitoring
		Monitor a resource group using the Azure portal
	Application Insights
		Add Application Insights to an existing ASP.NET MVC Web Application
	Summary
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