Use Kudu to manage Azure Web Apps 4sysops. Every Azure App Service web application includes a hidden service site called Kudu. Learn how to access Kudu and take advantage of the insights and extensions the service brings to your Azure hosted applications. Kudu pronounced KOO doo is an open source project that was originally designed to support Git source code control and Web. Jobs for Azure App Service web applications. Over the years, Kudu has expanded in its reach. In fact, you can even attach a Kudu instance to a non Azure web appPluralsight Asp. Web Api TutorialTroy Hunt. Hi, Im Troy Hunt, I write this blog, create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events. Pluralsight Asp. net Web Api ExamplesAccessing the Kudu service site Frankly, Im not sure why the Azure team doesnt make Kudu more obvious in the Azure Resource Management ARM portal. One method to access it is to go to Tools on your web apps main portal page, select Kudu from the menu, and then click Go. I show you this method in the following screenshot Accessing Kudu from the Azure Portal. Another, more direct method is to modify your web apps URL. Specifically, you should insert the site control manager scm token into the URL, as shown below https mywebappname. For mobile services, the URL format to access Kudu is the following https mywebappname. If youve mapped your own public DNS name to your web app, then youll still need to use the original. Best Practices for Group Policy Deployment and Management. Darren MarElia. Intermediate. Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management APM service for web developers building and managing apps on multiple platforms. Learn how. DNS name to access Kudu. Kudu console general navigation The following composite screenshot shows my Azure web apps Kudu dashboard with the Debug console and Tools menus simultaneously exposed The Kudu site control manager. The Environment page gives Azure web site administrators several pieces of valuable information App settings. Open-Live-Writer/New-Course-on-Building-Secure-Services-w_9F16/image_12.png' alt='Pluralsight Asp.net Web Api Vs Wcf' title='Pluralsight Asp.net Web Api Vs Wcf' />Download ASP. NET MVC and learn how to build web apps using the model view controller pattern. Microsoft is moving towards a new direction with its developer frameworks, signified by the crossplatform, modular, and faster ASP. NET Core 1. x2. 0 and Entity. PhoneGap Nitobi. When you start thinking about integrating Reporting Services into an application, one question that might arise is how to display a list of available reports to a user. Installing NuGet package ASP. NET. MVC solved the issue for me. To install package. Right click on project Select Manage NuGet Packages Select OnlineNuget. Latest Projects Your browser does not support the video tag. Pluralsight Play by Play Understanding API Functionality Through Swagger. Connection strings. Environment variables. Pluralsight Asp.Net Web Api' title='Pluralsight Asp.Net Web Api' />Runtime versions. Server variables. HTTP headers. This data is enormously helpful to have, especially when you recall that Azure web apps use a platform as a service Paa. S model in which we have limited direct control of the underlying Hyper V virtual machines. Of course, that data especially raw connection strings is sensitive, so it makes sense that you have to authenticate yourself as an Azure administrator before you can access the Kudu console. Pluralsight Asp.net Web Api 2' title='Pluralsight Asp.net Web Api 2' />Lets review some other useful Kudu based web app administrative tasks. Retrieve diagnostic dump data Azure Paa. S web apps run on Windows Server VMs and Internet Information Services IIS. As you know, IIS offers verbose logging options. In Kudu, fetch the diagnostic logs by clicking Tools Diagnostic Dump. KB/aspnet/1036704/mvccode3.PNG' alt='Pluralsight Asp.net Web Api Routing' title='Pluralsight Asp.net Web Api Routing' />This action yields a. If youd prefer to see live log data, click Tools Log stream. Ashrae Fitting Database. I show you the output from my Azure web app below Streaming log data for an Azure Paa. S web application. View running processes Click Process Explorer on the Kudu top navigation bar to see a stripped down, web based version of Windows Task Manager. This is a read only view of your Paa. S VMs running processes. It is mainly useful to see if any, and which, processes consume too many resources in your web app. Launch a diagnostic console Its admittedly pretty cool to obtain a web based cmd. Power. Shell. exe console from within a web browser. Because we dont have full stack access to the underlying VM the same way we do with the Azure infrastructure as a service Iaa. S scenario, I enjoy being able to view and modify data with Power. Shell. As you can see in the below screenshot, I have over 3,0. It must be said that Azure restricts many of them through the Kudu endpoint. Running interactive Power. Shell from Kudu. Site extensions Many Azure administrators are familiar with virtual machine extensions. For instance, you can use the Azure Portal, Windows Power. Shell, or Azure Command Line Interface CLI to add functionality to your virtual machines, including but not limited to the following Desired State Configuration DSC configurations. Various agents antimalware, configuration management, monitoring, etc. Backup automation. What Ive found that not as many Azure administrators know is that you can do the same thing for your Azure App Service web applications. From Kudu, click Site Extensions, and you can browse its gallery, as shown here The Kudu Site Extensions gallery. Notice the three buttons that accompany each extension Plus Install the extension. Info Read metadata about the extension, including a link to the projects home page. X Uninstall the extension. As an example, I find it annoying that Azure App Service refuses to enforce HTTPS connections to hosted web apps. You normally have to add a URL rewrite rule to your ASP. NET web apps web. But what if you host a Python web appI found and installed the Redirect HTTP to HTTPS extension from the gallery. After restarting my site, I see that the extension appears on my Installed page in the Kudu Site Extensions gallery. More importantly, my web app now properly enforces secure connections REST API endpoints Representational State Transfer REST is a popular framework for using web services nowadays. Its use facilitates data transfer in the lightweight, easy to read Java. Script Object Notation JSON format using stateless URLs. The Kudu dashboard has a REST API section that lists various service data endpoints for your web app. For instance, if I submit the following URL, Ill get back a JSON formatted results list of all my app settings https 5. Again, this is a neat programmatic method for retrieving your web apps data and metadata. Heres a tip. If you use the Google Chrome browser, install the JSONView extension to see the JSON data in a much more meaningful format. For instance, in the below screenshot, the raw JSON output appears above, and the extension formatted output below. Raw JSON above, formatted JSON below. Win the monthly 4sysops member prize for IT pros. Related Posts. Manage Azure role based access control with Power. S. Sending a webhook via Power. Browse Pluralsight. View all courses. Newest Courses. Subscribe to the RSS feed.