App Service plans and pricing tiers in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

App Service plans and pricing tiers

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a web application on Azure. To host your app, you need to create an App Service plan. This plan defines the resources and pricing tier your app will use.Think of an App Service plan like renting an apartment: the size and features you choose affect the cost and what you can do inside.

🎯 Goal: Create an Azure App Service plan with a specific pricing tier. You will first define the basic plan details, then add a pricing tier, and finally complete the configuration to deploy the plan.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable called app_service_plan with the name and location of the plan

Add a variable called pricing_tier with the value Standard_S1

Use the pricing_tier variable to set the SKU of the app_service_plan

Complete the configuration by adding the kind attribute with value app

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

App Service plans are used in real Azure cloud projects to allocate resources and pricing for web applications.

💼 Career

Understanding how to configure App Service plans is essential for cloud engineers and developers working with Azure.

1

Create the initial App Service plan data

Create a dictionary called app_service_plan with these exact entries: name set to "MyAppServicePlan" and location set to "East US".

Azure

# Create the app_service_plan dictionary with name and location
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a Python dictionary with keys name and location.

2

Add the pricing tier variable

Create a variable called pricing_tier and set it to the string "Standard_S1".

Azure

app_service_plan = {
    "name": "MyAppServicePlan",
    "location": "East US"
}
# Create pricing_tier variable with value "Standard_S1"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just assign the string "Standard_S1" to pricing_tier.

3

Set the SKU of the App Service plan

Add a key called sku to the app_service_plan dictionary and set its value to the pricing_tier variable.

Azure

app_service_plan = {
    "name": "MyAppServicePlan",
    "location": "East US"
}

pricing_tier = "Standard_S1"
# Add sku key to app_service_plan with value pricing_tier
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use app_service_plan["sku"] = pricing_tier or add it directly in the dictionary.

4

Complete the App Service plan configuration

Add a key called kind to the app_service_plan dictionary and set its value to the string "app".

Azure

app_service_plan = {
    "name": "MyAppServicePlan",
    "location": "East US",
    "sku": pricing_tier
}

pricing_tier = "Standard_S1"
# Add kind key to app_service_plan with value "app"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Adding "kind": "app" completes the plan configuration.