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During its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft revealed features for developers that include an updated Azure App Service with support for Go, the addition of GitHub security features to Azure DevOps, and a preview of Azure Deployment Environments, allowing for a quick spinup of cloud environments for assessing applications.
In addition, the low-code web development tool Power Pages is now generally available.
Azure App Service is one of the oldest and most used Azure features. According to principal program manager Byron Tardif, the service was introduced in June 2012 and is now “called an XXL service in Azure internally, a designation only shared with 3 other services.”
The attraction for developers is simplicity: deploy an app or container, scale easily from a free starter service to 20 high-spec instances with auto scaling. In August, as Tardif explained, the platform was redesigned to change its “front-end role,” which works in conjunction with Azure Load Balancer to terminate SSL connections and route traffic to the right VM. In the redesign, Microsoft’s Windows web server IIS (Internet Information Server) was replaced with Kestrel, the native .NET webserver, and the .NET reverse proxy YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy), enabling support for the gRPC protocol and up to 80% improvement in throughput.
Now, at Ignite, the company has added Go support to App Service, according to principal program manager Stefan Schackow. In addition, Python 3.10 and PHP 8.1 are now built into the platform, with Python 3.11, PHP 8.2 and Node.js 18 set to follow soon. Developers can already use runtimes of their choice via custom containers on App Service, but with more friction than using the built-in options.
Next up at Ignite is the addition of what the company calls “GitHub Advanced Security” for Azure DevOps. This touches on a matter of confusion for developers, which is the overlapping functionality of Azure DevOps, a platform…
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