18
DEC
Microsoft MVP for Azure
App Service
08
OCT
How to Get Azure App Service Windows Worker OS Full Name and Version
Sometimes, it's crucial to know the underlying operating system running your Azure App Service. This can help you address compatibility issues during development before deploying to Azure. Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation does not specify the exact operating system name and version of the Web Worker that runs your application. So, it's up to us to determine this information.
06
JUL
Deploy big-AGI to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes
big-AGI, the AI suite for professionals that need function, form, simplicity, and speed. Powered by the latest models from 12 vendors and open-source servers, big-AGI offers best-in-class Chats, Beams, and Calls with AI personas, visualizations, coding, drawing, side-by-side chatting, and more. However, the official repository of big-AGI does not offer a one-click installation for Azure, and the built-in authentication is only basic username and password. In this post, I'll share how to deploy big-AGI to Azure without the need to create a VM, and setup access control that requires individual accounts in Entra ID to log in, without making any changes to the code.
20
JUN
How to Set Time Zone for Azure App Service
Azure App Service defaults to UTC time, causing issues for legacy applications designed for specific time zones, such as Japan. These apps often use `DateTime.Now`, resulting in incorrect data when deployed on Azure. While the server time zone can't be changed directly in Azure App Service, this article will guide you on how to adjust the time zone to ensure your legacy applications run correctly.
05
MAR
Deploy Website from Local Machine to Azure App Service without Git, CI/CD or VS/Code
Azure App Service offers a variety of deployment options tailored to the diverse needs of developers. But what if your project is a straightforward task that doesn't warrant the complexity of setting up an entire suite of tools or a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline? I'm going to walk you through a streamlined approach that minimizes effort to make your deployment ready …
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