TomEE with Azure Web Apps
I’m prefacing this that I am by no means a Java Developer or have a desire to become one :). This was a case related to configuring TomEE with Azure web apps. With IIS the httpPlatformHandler dynamically assigns a port to the process its communicating with (PHP, Nodejs, DotnetCore, Java, ect). Because of this the…
PreemptSdk with Application Insights and an App Service
I wasn’t able to find any documentation on this setting so PreemptSdk I figured I’d write a quick post on it. This setting when set to 1 will ignore the SDK that’s added as a NuGet package in the application deployed as an Azure Web App and fall back to the extension that’s built into…
Azure Web App/Function App Authentication and Authorization References
Here’s a dump of authentication related articles and blogs for Authentication and Authorization formerly known as Easy Auth. Note its always good to read through the comments of the blogs and forum post to get helpful tidbits you may have otherwise missed. If you find another article please feel free to leave a comment and…
Load Root Certificate in an ILB ASE
Here’s the steps to upload a certificate to the Root Certificate store on the instance of an ILB ASE. This feature only works for ASEs. Brief overview: Go to an app that needs the cert to be available. Prepare your cert as a cer file (see steps below for more detail with screenshots) Go to…
Troubleshooting App Initialization (IIS Warmup) on Azure Web Apps
Troubleshooting App Init (IIS Warmup) Lately our team has been getting a higher load of issues related to customers trying to utilize the Application Initialization Module. This module is handy feature that allows you to warm your app prior to the application receiving requests to help avoid the dreaded cold-start or slow initial load times…
Gitlab Continuous (CI/CD) with an Azure Web App
Recently I came across a case with helping a customer configure Gitlab with Azure web app using continuous integration. App Services support Git repositories from Bitbucket, Github, and VSTS Git natively but Gitlab requires a bit more manual setup. Referenced these two helpful blogshttps://christianliebel.com/2016/05/auto-deploying-to-azure-app-services-from-gitlab/ https://teerachail.gitbooks.io/the-s-sentials/content/gitlab2appservice.html Go to the Azure portal under your web app ->…
Troubleshooting SMTP issues/Sending emails from Azure Web Apps
In the past year I’ve come across a number of issues related to sending emails from web apps that work locally but when a customer is developing or deploying to an Azure Web App, the connection fails. Here are some straightforward step by step troubleshooting steps to isolate platform vs your code. 1. Are you…
Checking the Status of an Azure Web App Swap using PowerShell
This past week I was working with a customer who wanted to check the status of a swap with an Azure Web App using TFS. One option would be to use the Swap deployment task and the other would be to query the status using PowerShell. In order to do so we query the Activity…
End to End SSL with Application Gateway and Azure Web Apps (10/2017)
Fourth Update 7/2018: You no longer need to use Application Gateway to front your application to be PCI 3.0 compliant. You can enable the respective TLS version you would like your app to respond to directly in the Azure Portal for your web application. Third Update: After some discussions it is probably not recommended to…
