Azure app Service |New way to handle configurations
Azure App Configuration
Issue:
· I have 20 app services or components, and all are using same configuration e.g. connection string or any other key/value pair.
· Why should I store same things in 20 apps?
· Can I store it in some central repository and access it?
· The challenges it to keep my setting in various places in today’s distributed architecture.
Solution:
One solution of all these issues is the new feature which is App configuration.
You can login to Azure portal and search for App Configuration.
It’s very easy to create through Azure portal.
Once you create a new App Configuration then you can see it’s basic information in the overview blade.
The most important part is “Configuration explorer” which helps you to create/Modify/delete the app settings or configuration.
It’s very easy to create key/value pair.
Once you are done with it, you can refer “Access Key” section to get the access key which can be used in your application to access the app configuration.
It has lot of other good features like,
· Import/Export app configuration in/from
o Config File
o Other Apps
o Another App Configuration
· You can keep track of what has changed.
· You can compare and restore your settings.
· You can create it with ARM template also.
It provides the SDK also which you can use in your code to handle everything.
I hope this helps.
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