Create a Web App using Azure CLI

Create Web App resources 

Connect to Cloud Shell

Sign into the Azure admin portal
https://portal.azure.com

Open Cloud Shell - Create storage

Change to Bash shell

Create a Resource Group

# Define resource group variables
rgName=www-planetexpress-rg
rgLocation=ukwest 

# Create resource group and output results to a table 
az group create --name $rgName --location $rgLocation --output table
 

Create a Storage Account

# Define storage account variables
saName=wwwplanetexpresssa
rgName=www-planetexpress-rg
location=ukwest
sku=Standard_LRS
kind=StorageV2

# create storage account
az storage account create --name $saName --resource-group $rgName --location $location --sku $sku --kind $kind 

Create an App Service Plan

An App Service Plan defines the compute resources used to run Web Apps (similar to a server farm). You can choose Windows or Linux operating systems, the number of Virtual Machine instances (workers) and the size of VMs.

• Workers are the virtual machines that run your apps. 
• Each worker unit is a VM instance or node in the server farm, and each one has a cost.
• You'll need to create an App Service plan before you can create a Web App

The options used in this guide are examples for testing only. For production websites, you might want to add these options: --sku --number-of-workers

# Create an App service plan
az appservice plan create -g www-planetexpress-rg -n www-planetexpress-plan  

This command will create a default Windows App service plan, B1:1 with 1 worker if other options are not specified.

Create a Web App

Create a Web App that uses the App Service Plan we created in the previous step -p www-planetexpress-plan

# Create a web app 
az webapp create -g www-planetexpress-rg -p www-planetexpress-plan -n www-planetexpress-app 

You can stop / restart your web app from the Overview tab