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Using Azure Web Apps with Containers, Linux, and Cloud Shell

In this lab, you will gain experience using the Azure Cloud Shell to create App Service plans using Linux, and web apps using Docker containers. You will use the Azure Cloud Shell to create a Linux App Service plan, and a web app under that plan which uses Docker images on DockerHub and GitHub. When you're finished, you will browse to your site to see everything running and will verify all the resources you created using the Azure Portal. Upon completion of the lab, you will have gained the experience required to use the Azure Cloud Shell to create App Service plans using Linux and web apps using Docker containers.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 29, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Use Cloud Shell to create a Linux App Service plan.

    PowerShell script to create Linux App Service plan:

    $resourceGroup = az group list --query '[0].name' -otsv
    $appServicePlan = 'Linux-App-ServicePlan'
    
    az appservice plan create -g $resourceGroup -n $appServicePlan --is-linux --number-of-workers 1 --sku B1
    
  2. Challenge

    Use Cloud Shell to create a web app using a DockerHub container image.

    PowerShell script to create file shares:

    $app = 'LinuxDockerApp' + (Get-Date).ticks
    
    az webapp create --resource-group $resourceGroup --plan $appServicePlan --name $app --deployment-container-image-name mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples:aspnetapp
    
  3. Challenge

    Use Cloud Shell to update web app container image from DockerHub to GitHub.

    PowerShell script to create file shares:

    az webapp config container set --resource-group $resourceGroup --name $app --docker-registry-server-url 'https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/tree/master/samples/aspnetapp'
    

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