Custom domains and SSL in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Custom domains and SSL setup on Azure App Service

📖 Scenario: You have created a web app on Azure App Service. Now, you want to make it accessible via your own domain name and secure it with SSL.This project guides you through configuring a custom domain and enabling SSL for your Azure web app.

🎯 Goal: Configure a custom domain www.example.com for your Azure web app named mywebapp and enable SSL using a free App Service Managed Certificate.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a resource group variable named resource_group with value myResourceGroup.

Create a web app variable named webapp_name with value mywebapp.

Create a variable custom_domain with value www.example.com.

Create a variable ssl_cert_name with value mywebapp-ssl-cert.

Add the custom domain www.example.com to the web app.

Create a free App Service Managed Certificate for www.example.com.

Bind the SSL certificate to the custom domain on the web app.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Many companies want to use their own domain names and secure their websites with SSL certificates to protect user data and improve trust.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals often configure custom domains and SSL certificates on cloud web hosting platforms like Azure App Service.

1

Set up resource group and web app variables

Create a variable called resource_group and set it to myResourceGroup. Then create a variable called webapp_name and set it to mywebapp.

Azure

# Create variables for resource group and web app name
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use simple string assignments for both variables.

2

Add custom domain variable

Add a variable called custom_domain and set it to www.example.com.

Azure

resource_group = 'myResourceGroup'
webapp_name = 'mywebapp'
# Create variable for custom domain
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the exact domain string to the variable.

3

Add SSL certificate name variable

Add a variable called ssl_cert_name and set it to mywebapp-ssl-cert.

Azure

resource_group = 'myResourceGroup'
webapp_name = 'mywebapp'
custom_domain = 'www.example.com'
# Create variable for SSL certificate name
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the exact string for the SSL certificate name.

4

Configure custom domain and SSL binding

Use Azure CLI commands to add the custom domain custom_domain to the web app webapp_name in resource_group. Then create a free App Service Managed Certificate named ssl_cert_name for the custom domain. Finally, bind the SSL certificate to the custom domain on the web app.

Azure

resource_group = 'myResourceGroup'
webapp_name = 'mywebapp'
custom_domain = 'www.example.com'
ssl_cert_name = 'mywebapp-ssl-cert'
# Add custom domain to web app
# Create free SSL certificate
# Bind SSL certificate to custom domain
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use Azure CLI commands with the variables to add domain, create SSL cert, and bind SSL.