Deploying a web API to Azure App Service

In this section, we will deploy the application using the Azure App Service. This example uses a free trial account. If you have access to any other subscription, you can use that here.

Follow these steps to deploy:

1. Right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and select Publish
2. In the Publish dialog, click Microsoft Azure App Service.

3. Click New to create a new resource group from Visual Studio. You could also use an existing one. In this example, an already existing Azure app under resource group is used.
4. Click Ok to web deploy the application to the Azure app.
5. Web Deploy will perform the operation of installing dotnet runtime, restoring packages, and copying the published web API application onto the Azure apps.
6. Once done, the browser automatically opens up with the link. You are ready to test it now:

Web deploy to Azure App Service...