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App platform
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Static Web Apps configuration
Microsoft Learn describes Static Web Apps configuration as the staticwebapp.config.json file used to control routing and application behavior. It defines route rules, authorization requirements, response overrides, custom headers, navigation fallback, networking settings, and other global behavior for an Azure Static Web Apps site.
Static Web Apps
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-configuration, Static Web Apps configuration, staticwebapp.config.json, Static Web Apps config file, SWA configuration, routes configuration
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Static Web Apps custom domain
Microsoft Learn describes custom domains for Azure Static Web Apps as mappings from your own domain name to a static web app. Configuration includes subdomain or apex-domain options, DNS records for validation and routing, and automatic SSL/TLS certificate creation for the custom domains you add.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-custom-domain, Static Web Apps custom domain, Static Web App custom domain, SWA custom domain, custom hostname for Static Web Apps, staticwebapp hostname
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Web
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Static Web Apps deployment token
A secret used by deployment tooling to publish content to an Azure Static Web Apps resource.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-deployment-token, Static Web Apps deployment token, SWA deployment token, Static Web App deployment secret, staticwebapp api key, SWA_CLI_DEPLOYMENT_TOKEN
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Web
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Static Web Apps environment
A production, preview, or named deployment instance for an Azure Static Web Apps application.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-environment, Static Web Apps environment, SWA environment, Static Web Apps preview environment, Static Web Apps named environment, Static Web Apps production environment
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Web
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Static Web Apps linked backend
An external API service connected to a Static Web App so front-end requests can reach it through the app API route.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-linked-backend, Static Web Apps linked backend, SWA linked backend, bring your own API, Static Web Apps BYO API, Static Web Apps backend link
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Web
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Static Web Apps managed functions
Built-in Azure Functions APIs deployed and managed with an Azure Static Web Apps site.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-managed-functions, Static Web Apps managed functions, SWA managed functions, managed Functions API, Static Web Apps built-in API, Static Web Apps /api functions
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Web
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Static Web Apps route rule
A staticwebapp.config.json rule that controls how a specific Static Web Apps route is authorized, rewritten, redirected, or handled.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-route-rule, Static Web Apps route rule, SWA route rule, staticwebapp.config.json route, Static Web Apps routes, route authorization rule
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Web
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Static Web Apps staging environment
Microsoft Learn describes Static Web Apps staging and preview environments as hosted pre-production versions of a static app. Pull requests can create temporary review URLs, and named preview environments can provide stable locations for branch testing before changes are merged or promoted to production.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-staging-environment, Static Web Apps staging environment, SWA staging environment, Static Web Apps preview environment, pre-production Static Web App, Static Web Apps branch environment
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App platform
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Static Web App
Microsoft Learn describes Azure Static Web Apps as a service that automatically deploys full-stack web apps from a source repository. It serves static assets from globally distributed locations, integrates optional APIs, supports GitHub or Azure DevOps workflows, and provides routing, authentication, staging environments, and CLI support.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-app, Static Web App, Azure Static Web Apps, SWA, static web app resource, staticwebapp
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Storage
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Static website hosting
Microsoft Learn describes static website hosting in Azure Storage as a Blob Storage feature that serves HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files from a special $web container through a static website endpoint. The feature supports index and error document configuration for public read-only web content.
Blob Storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-website-hosting, Static website hosting, Azure Storage static website, Blob Storage static website, storage static website, static website endpoint
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Storage
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Storage account static website
Storage account static website is a Blob Storage feature that serves HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files from the special $web container through a web endpoint. It supports simple static sites without app servers. The endpoint is commonly fronted by CDN or Azure Front Door.
Storage accounts
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Storage account static website, storage account static website, storage-account-static-website, static website hosting, storage static website, $web container
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Web
premium
Serverless API deployment
Serverless API deployment in Azure commonly means publishing HTTP-triggered Azure Functions, often with zip deployment, run-from-package, Static Web Apps APIs, or API Management integration. The deployment packages code, configuration, identity, routing, and monitoring so an API endpoint can scale without dedicated server management.
Azure Functions
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: serverless API release, Azure Functions API deployment, HTTP trigger deployment, function API deployment
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Web
premium
Custom domain
an organization-controlled DNS name bound to an Azure-hosted endpoint instead of the default service hostname.
Domains and TLS
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: custom hostname, custom DNS name, application custom domain
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Web
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Preview environment
A preview environment is a temporary copy of a Static Web Apps site used to review changes before they become production. When a pull request is opened, Azure can build the branch and publish it to a unique URL. Reviewers, testers, designers, and product owners can click through the changed site, run checks, and compare behavior against production. It is not a secret sandbox by default. Anyone who has the preview URL may be able to open it, so sensitive content and test credentials need careful handling.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage static website
Azure Storage static website hosting lets a general-purpose v2 or BlockBlobStorage account serve static HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files from the special $web container. Operators enable the feature, set index and error documents, and then publish content through the account's web endpoint.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Storage static website, static website hosting for storage, $web container website, storage website endpoint
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Storage
complete
Static website hosting for storage
Microsoft Learn explains that Azure Storage can host static web content from a general-purpose v2 or BlockBlobStorage account. Enabling the feature creates or uses the $web container, where HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images are served through the account website endpoint.
Storage account
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-website-hosting-for-storage, Static website hosting for storage, Azure Storage static website hosting, storage account static website, Blob service static website, web endpoint for storage
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Networking
premium
Web Application Firewall
Azure Web Application Firewall is a centralized protection service for HTTP applications. It can run with Application Gateway, Front Door, Application Gateway for Containers, or Azure CDN, using managed and custom rules to detect and block common exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
Application security
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: WAF, Azure WAF, Application Gateway WAF, Front Door WAF
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Containers
premium
Container Apps ingress
The Container Apps setting that controls whether and how HTTP or TCP traffic reaches a container app.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Web
premium
Custom container web app
an Azure App Service web app that runs a team-supplied container image instead of a built-in runtime stack.
App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: App Service custom container, Web App for Containers, containerized App Service app
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Web
verified
WebJobs / background work
Azure WebJobs is a built-in App Service feature for running background tasks, scripts, and programs alongside a web, API, or mobile app. Jobs share the App Service plan and can run continuously, on demand, or by schedule, often using the WebJobs SDK for event-driven processing.
App Service
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure WebJobs, App Service WebJobs, background jobs, continuous WebJob, triggered WebJob
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Web
verified
Web app runtime stack
A web app runtime stack is the language and framework environment Azure App Service uses to run an application, such as .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, or a custom container. It affects supported versions, platform patching, startup behavior, and deployment compatibility.
App Service
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: App Service runtime stack, web app stack, linuxFxVersion, language runtime stack
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Web
field-manual-ready
Multi-container web app
A multi-container web app is an App Service workload made from multiple cooperating containers rather than one application image.
Azure App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Docker Compose web app, App Service multi-container, multi-container web app, App Service sidecar, Docker Compose App Service
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Web
premium
Web App
A Web App is an Azure App Service application for hosting web applications, REST APIs, or mobile back ends without managing servers. It runs on an App Service plan, supports common language stacks or containers, and integrates with deployment, scaling, networking, identity, and monitoring features.
App Service
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Web App, App Service Web App, Microsoft.Web/sites, App Service app
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Containers
premium
ACR webhook
An ACR webhook is an Azure Container Registry event notification that sends an HTTP or HTTPS request to a configured endpoint when registry actions occur, such as image push or delete. It can be registry-wide or scoped to a repository or tag, including regional replicas.
Azure Container Registry
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Registry webhook, registry webhook, ACR event webhook
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Containers
premium
Container Apps
A serverless Azure service for running containerized apps and jobs without directly operating Kubernetes clusters.
Serverless containers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Apps
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Containers
premium
Container Apps custom domain
A custom hostname assigned to a Container App ingress endpoint.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps environment variable
An environment variable passed into a Container Apps container.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps replica
a running instance of a Container Apps revision that is added or removed as Azure Container Apps scales the workload
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps session
an isolated, short-lived execution environment from a Container Apps dynamic session pool, often used for sandboxed code or custom runtime tasks
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps traffic split
percentage-based Container Apps ingress routing that sends traffic to active revisions or labels for canary, blue-green, or A/B releases
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps workload profile
the Container Apps environment compute profile that controls resource size, scaling model, isolation, and billing behavior for deployed apps
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Integration
premium
Event Grid webhook endpoint
An Event Grid webhook endpoint is an HTTPS endpoint configured as an event handler that validates ownership and receives Event Grid events over HTTP. Teams use it to send Event Grid events to a custom HTTPS application, API, Azure Function HTTP trigger, automation webhook, or supported workflow endpoint. It is not a storage queue, Event Hubs destination, or an endpoint that can skip Event Grid validation. In production, confirm the source, subscription, destination, filters, schema, identity, retry behavior, failure handling, monitoring, and owner before treating the route as safe.
Event Grid
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Event Grid webhook handler, webhook endpoint for Event Grid
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Containers
premium
Container Apps job
A Container Apps resource for running scheduled, event-driven, or manual containerized tasks to completion.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
4 commands
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Integration
premium
Logic Apps managed identity
A Logic Apps managed identity is the Microsoft Entra identity assigned to a Logic Apps workflow or Standard logic app resource so the workflow can authenticate to supported Azure resources without storing passwords, shared keys, or long-lived secrets in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
4 commands
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Containers
verified
Container Apps certificate
A certificate used for TLS on a Container Apps custom domain.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
verified
Container Apps exec
An interactive command execution feature for a running Container App replica.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
verified
Container Apps log stream
A live log stream for a Container App replica or revision.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps managed environment
A Container Apps managed environment is the shared home where one or more Azure Container Apps and jobs run. It is not your container image or one app instance; it is the boundary around the runtime, networking, logging, certificates, Dapr settings, and workload profile capacity that those apps use. Teams choose an environment before creating.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
field-manual-complete
Container Apps revision
Microsoft Learn explains that a Container Apps revision is created at first deployment and whenever revision-scope settings change. Revision mode controls whether one or multiple revisions stay active, enabling traffic splitting, labels, rollbacks, and safer updates without changing the whole container app resource. in controlled production releases.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Container Apps revision, active-revision, container apps revision, container-app-environment, container-apps, container-apps-ingress, container-apps-revision, container-apps-traffic-split, container-image, container-image-digest, deployment-labels, deployment-slot, inactive-revision, keda
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Container Apps scale rule
A Container Apps scale rule tells Azure Container Apps when to run more or fewer replicas of an app revision. Instead of guessing capacity manually, you define a trigger such as HTTP concurrency, CPU, memory, Service Bus messages, Kafka lag, or another KEDA-supported event source. The rule works with minimum and maximum replica limits, so.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
field-manual-complete
Container Apps secret
Microsoft Learn describes Container Apps secrets as application-scoped values that can be stored directly or referenced from Azure Key Vault. Revisions can use them through environment variables, registry credentials, or scale rules, while managed identity controls access to Key Vault references. during application configuration and rotation.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Container Apps secret, app-service-app-setting, client-secret, container apps secret, container-apps, container-apps-environment-variable, container-apps-revision, container-apps-secret, container-registry, keda, key-vault, key-vault-access-policy, managed-identity, secret
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Integration
verified
Logic Apps Standard
Logic Apps Standard is the Azure Logic Apps hosting option where one logic app resource can contain one or more workflows running in a single-tenant runtime, with app-level settings, storage dependency, deployment operations, and scaling controls in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
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Integration
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Logic Apps Consumption
Logic Apps Consumption is the Azure Logic Apps hosting option where each logic app resource contains one workflow that runs in the multitenant Azure Logic Apps service and is typically billed by trigger executions, actions, and connector usage in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps Consumption
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Networking
premium
Front Door
Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global edge service for modern web applications. Microsoft Learn describes it as a cloud CDN that provides fast, reliable, and secure access to static and dynamic content through Microsoft’s global edge network worldwide.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door, AFD, Azure Front Door Standard, Azure Front Door Premium, global edge
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Interaction to Next Paint
Interaction to Next Paint controls how teams measure whether web pages feel responsive after real user interactions, especially for Azure-hosted web apps and customer portals. Teams see it in microsoft edge devtools, microsoft clarity dashboards. It is not server response time, Time to First Byte, First Input Delay, Cumulative Layout Shift, or a backend CPU metric; confusing them can create slow clicks, abandoned checkout flows. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Web Vitals
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: INP, Core Web Vitals INP, web responsiveness metric, interaction responsiveness
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Security
premium
Application Gateway WAF policy
An Application Gateway WAF policy stores Web Application Firewall configuration for Application Gateway v2. It includes managed rules, custom rules, exclusions, and policy settings, and can be associated globally, with a listener, or with a path-based rule for targeted web request inspection.
Web application firewall
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway WAF policy, WAF policy for Application Gateway, Azure WAF policy, regional WAF policy
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Monitoring and Observability
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Throughput
Throughput is the amount of work a system completes over time, such as requests, messages, bytes, events, or transactions per second. In Azure, teams measure it with service metrics, logs, and capacity settings to judge whether an app, database, storage account, or messaging pipeline can sustain demand.
Performance
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Throughput, throughput, Azure Throughput, Microsoft Learn Throughput, requests per second, events per second, transactions per second, bytes per second, work completed over time
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage CORS rule
A storage CORS rule is a service property that tells Azure Storage which browser origins, HTTP methods, request headers, exposed headers, and preflight cache duration are allowed for cross-origin requests. It supports browser applications, but it is not authentication or authorization.
Blob Storage configuration
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Storage CORS, Blob CORS rule, cross-origin rule for storage
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB trigger
Cosmos DB trigger is a registered JavaScript pre-trigger or post-trigger for Cosmos DB for NoSQL operations inside a container. It runs server-side logic around an item operation when application code explicitly asks Cosmos DB to use it. You see it when teams maintain legacy NoSQL scripts, troubleshoot write behavior, or compare triggers with change feed and Azure Functions. The production check is whether the trigger is necessary, explicitly invoked, partition-scoped, tested, and safer than handling the logic in application code. Document the decision in code, templates, metrics, and runbooks.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
8 commands
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Web
premium
App Service private endpoint
An App Service private endpoint uses Azure Private Link to give an app a private IP address in a virtual network for inbound client access.
App Service Networking
intermediate
6 commands
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