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Published inApr 2017
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Mitesh Soni
Mitesh Soni
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Mitesh Soni

Mitesh Soni has 8 years of experience in managing software for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems in production environment. He started working as a professional with DevOps from 2013 and has worked on several live projects related to DevOps. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessiogarofalo
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Scaling Azure Web Apps


The scaling up and down or scaling in and out operations are required to effectively utilize underlying resources based on the requirements. For example, for an online shopping website, we can predict that it will have a huge number of requests during festival days. It may have a moderate number of requests on normal weekdays. In such a scenario, it is better to keep more resources available to manage user requests and decrease the number of resources on normal days. If we can automate this scale in and scale out operation, then it is the best utilization of resources and customers also won't face any issues.

Both the operations are performed on the ASP.

Scaling up and down

In this option, we can increase the number of cores, RAM, storage, the number of instances, slots, backup, and other services.

To scale up, go to Azure web application and select Scale up (App Service plan).

The selected pricing tier will have a blue border around it. Change the higher pricing tier based...

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Published in: Apr 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787127029

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Mitesh Soni

Mitesh Soni has 8 years of experience in managing software for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems in production environment. He started working as a professional with DevOps from 2013 and has worked on several live projects related to DevOps. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessiogarofalo
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