05
MAR
.NET and Azure Developer
App Service
14
DEC
How to Detect If Your Application is Running in Azure App Service
An application needs to know if itself is running in Azure App Service, so that it can apply special logic and optimization for Azure. When deploying an application to Azure App Service, the platform automatically assigns a set of environment variables that can be accessed by the application code. In this post, we will see how can our application get this information. …
01
SEP
How Azure App Service for Linux Runs Your .NET Application
Azure App Service started to support Linux in 2017 as well as containers. It has similar capability as classic App Service on Windows Server, which can run .NET, Java, NodeJs, PHP and Ruby applications with CI/CD and auto scale. In this post, I will use ASP.NET Core application as an example to explore its underlying mechanism to see how it works. …
18
MAY
Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes
ChatGPT Next Web is a well-known web UI project for ChatGPT. However, the official repository does not offer a one-click installation option for Azure, and it lacks individual account authentication. We will explore how to deploy it to Azure without creating a VM, add access control to log in to use ChatGPT without any code modification, and complete these tasks within three minutes. …
09
DEC
Get Client IP When Your ASP.NET Core App is behind Reversed Proxy on Azure App Service
Problem I have a web app with a web front end and API backend both deployed to Azure App Service. I reversed proxy the API using this method I described before, so that my web front end can access API without having CORS issue, and the end users won't need to access my API address directly. However, for the API code, the client IP address I got is always Azure app service's outbound IP instead …
11
DEC
Automated Deployment Script with Azure CLI and PowerShell Core
My blog project, "Moonglade", is optimized for running on Microsoft Azure. It can combine up to 14 Azure services together for a full deployment, manually setup is difficult and takes time. I chose Azure CLI with PowerShell Core to write a deployment script that enables a quick on-board experience to setup Moonglade in 10 minutes with minimal Azure Services. Let's see how it is done. …
10
MAY
How to Prevent Access to App Service Url Behind Azure Front Door
In my previous posts, I have introduced usage of Azure Front Door. However, when we finish setting up the front door and bind our domain to the front door, users can still access the App Service URL. In this post, I'll introduce how to prevent access to our App Service when using Azure Front Door. Problem For example, my blog is binding https://edi.wang to my front door, I have 2 App Services …
02
NOV
How to Enable Application Request Routing on Azure App Service
We typically use Application Request Routing (ARR) module to host a reverse proxy on IIS. Azure App Service is also using IIS as it's gateway, which should work for reverse proxy, but it won't work by default. Let's see how can we enable ARR on Azure App Service. The Experiment I have https://dropdatabase.run/ domain, and I want to reverse proxy https://996.icu/ under https://dropdatabase.run/996. …
20
OCT
Load Balancing My Blog on Azure
In order to improve the page loading speed of my blog for US users, I deployed an App Service in West US region on Azure some time ago. Now I have 2 servers running my blog, East Asia and West US. In this post, I'm going to illustrate how to use Azure to load balancing these servers, so that users can get access to the closest server for their regions. Adding Identifier Tags Since the codes …
10
JUN