How to: Create an Azure App Service API app
How to: Create an Azure App Service API app

Introduction

In this short post, I'm going to cover topic "create an Azure App Service API app". The details in this post will help to cover a part of knowledge required to complete Azure AZ-203 certification.

Getting Started

To publish any Web or API application that may have been developed using any programming language, we need a place to host. "Azure App Service API app" comes handy for such case.

Yes, it is easy to create and publish API app in few minutes with Azure portal.

Take a look at my post how to create an Azure App Service Web App

Create Azure App Service API App

This is almost identical to my previous post on how to create an Azure App Service Web App.

Currently all of Web, Mobile and API Apps are collectively called App Services.

Azure still offer customer to be able to create a Mobile App and a Web App in the gallery but that is basically resolve into an App Service App.

There are two topics under " Create Azure App Service API apps " and they are as below. We will cover the first part in this post.

  • create an Azure App Service API app
  • create documentation for the API by using open source and other tools

To create API App, simply go to the search bar in the top and search with "API App" keyword. Search results that looks like below image.

Click on API App to begin deployment.

Create an Azure App Service API app

It is relatively simple to create and get this app deployed in few minutes using azure portal.

Follow the steps below

How to: Create an Azure App Service API app

Step by step guide to create API App

  1. Provide a unique name for the API App.
  2. Choose a subscription you have. E.g. If you have created a free account, you will see "Free trial" as subscription. I have Pay as you go plan so I have chosen that.
  3. Choose a resource group or create one. This helps to group various resource together.
  4. Choose an App service plan, I have selected existing one which is a Free tier F1. Refer this post for more details
  5. Leave the default for Application Insight, it is very useful one to app and it is almost free. I will cover more about this in a different post.
  6. Deployment is complete by clicking Create button.

Now you will see "Your deployment is underway" message, please be patience and give few minutes time for the process to complete.

After the deployment is complete, you may go the created resource. By clicking App Services from All Services menu, you can see our newly created app service "karthiktechblog-shopping-api".

Click on it and you can see the details of the created app service.

deployment status of azure app service API App

According to Microsoft, there are many free services for 12 months and always free services. You can refer this information in the FAQ mentioned in the this link.

Conclusion

In this post, I have shown how to Create Azure App Service API Apps. This post is part of learning track for azure AZ-203 certification. In the upcoming post, I will cover how to create API App and deploy the application to this Web App and API App.

That’s all from this post. If you have any questions or just want to chat with me, feel free to leave a comment below.

One thought on “How to: Create an Azure App Service API app

  1. Aw, this was a very good post. Spending some time and actual effort
    to produce a very good article… but what can I say… I put things
    off a lot and never seem to get nearly anything done.

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