Microsoft Azure

Azure is popular choice for enterprises often in combination with an automated CI/CD pipeline via Azure DevOps. To get started you can use the Azure Portal to deploy your app as a Linux Web App via the web based user interface.

There are a few things you need to be aware of in order to be able to start your app.

Python Web Apps assumes your web app

• is using gunicorn (like Flask or Django) or alternative is started by a python command. Thus

  • You cannot use panel serve app.py ... as a Startup Command.

  • You can use python -m panel serve app.py ... or python app.py ... as a Startup command.

• is served on address 0.0.0.0 and port 8000

Thus you can use

python -m panel serve app.py --address 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --allow-websocket-origin=app-name.azurewebsites.net

as a Startup command.

You might be able to use python app.py as a Startup command with .show() or panel.serve inside your app.py file, if you can configure the address, port and allow-websocket-origin in the app.py file or via environment variables.

You also need to configure your app service general settings to

• allow Web sockets and

• be Always on

If you would like to setup automated CI/ CD via Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines and Docker to a Web App for Containers, you can find a good starting point in the devops Folder of awesome-panel.org.