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Azure setup

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Azure setup

- [Instructor] Azure web apps for Microsoft is a service to host web applications or web services such as rest API's mobile backend servers, or applications like the one we're working with. Microsoft has come a long way with language support as they work on open source initiatives and there's a lot of open source left to be found in the web app service. All of these languages are supported by the web app service. Even cooler, you can deploy to either a Linux VM or a Windows one this gives you the ability to ensure the cross platform compatibility of your app as part of your deployment process. Other platform and service providers we've looked at Microsoft provides a powerful platform to handle scaling, load balancing, security, and management. And according to Forrester, 2017 was the year of DevOps and so it's really to see Microsoft stepping up here as well. You'll need to get an Azure login from Microsoft in order to go through this chapter and that's at azure.microsoft.com they do…

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