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Difficulty: EasyAzure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure App Service

An organization wants to host a web application written in Python. The development team needs to deploy their application code directly to Azure without managing container images, and they want Microsoft to manage the underlying operating system patching and scaling. Which Azure service meets these requirements?

  1. Azure App ServiceAnswer
  2. B
    Azure Virtual Machines
  3. C
    Azure Container Instances
  4. D
    Azure Kubernetes Service

Answer

Azure App Service
Azure App Service is the correct choice because it is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows developers to upload and run application code directly (such as Python) without containerizing it. Microsoft automatically handles the underlying web servers, operating system updates, infrastructure patching, and scaling.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the application hosting requirements: hosting a Python web application by deploying code directly without container images.
Limits the choice to services that support direct code deployment, such as Azure App Service, while excluding container-only services like Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service.
To identify services that support non-containerized deployments.
2
Evaluate the management requirements: Microsoft must handle the operating system patching and scaling.
This points to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) compute offering like Azure App Service, and rules out Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings like Azure Virtual Machines where the customer is responsible for patching.
To match the shared responsibility model requirements for platform management.

Key Concept

Azure App Service is a fully managed HTTP-based hosting service for web applications, REST APIs, and mobile backends, supporting direct deployment of code or containers with automatic OS patching and scaling.
Estimated Time:45s
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Topics

Azure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure App Service

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