Protecting AppService using Front Door
Starting with the fact that every web application should be protected by a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and accelerated using a Content Delivery Network (CDN), combined with the simplicity of the deployment of the Azure Front Door service, gives you no excuses for not protecting your apps! In this blog post, we're going to deploy an AppService and protect it using Azure Front Door. For the purposes of this demo, we're going to use the NodeJS - RequestInformation app that is available in my Github repo over here . This application provides information on the platform and incoming requests that is going to be very handy later on. To deploy the demo resources, you just have to clone this repository, change to the FrontDoor-AppServiceBackend-001/101-Bicep-Templates/900-IaC-FullDeployment-001 directory, and execute the deploy.sh script. The script will create a subscription-level deployment that will deploy an AppService (including the plan) and an Azure Front Door. Make su...