Automating WebApps hosted in Azure App Service through PowerShell – ARM Way

Azure Resource Manager is a powerful way of automating almost anything in Azure. In this blog I will talk about how we use the ARM based PowerShell CmdLets to automate common tasks for managing / maintaining WebApps in Azure App Service.

First of all, I want to mention that there are two modes for writing PowerShell scripts to automate Azure. When you install Azure PowerShell two sets of modules get installed namely Azure Service Management (ASM) and Azure Resource Management(ARM). Both of these had different powershell commands to achieve the same result. In this blog post, I will talk about the ARM way of automating Azure Resources because ARM is the preferred way going forward and ARM is what the latest Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) uses and is more promising from a feature set.

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