Azure Classroom Series – 03/Mar/2021

Scaling Azure App Services

• There are two workflows for scaling
  • Scale up:
    • Get more cpu, memory, disk space.
    • This is acheived by changing the pricing tier
    • This is referred as vertical scaling
  • Scale out:
    • Increase number of vm instances that run your app
    • Scaling out can be done manually or automatically
    • This is referred as horizontal scaling
• Create a resource group
• Create an azure app service with free tier
• Now deploy the sample application
• Scale up Azure App Service
  • Navigate to azure app service in Azure portal
• Scale out Azure App Service
• Lets add deployment slots