WordPress Blog in Azure App Service In Minutes–Part 01

All my life I have been a tech saavy person would make my hands dirty trying out all odds available.

Here I am going to help you with setting up your own WordPress Blog in Azure App Service.

SPOILER ALERT: We will be using a B1 – Basic instance to save the cost.

Step 1: Login to Azure Portal

Step 2: Click on New

Step 3: Search for “Wordpress” among resources  and Select WordPress

Step 4: Click on ‘CREATE’

Step 5: Enter App Service Instance Name

Step 6: Now Select Database Provider. We need MySQL as the database and we have two options provided by Azure

1. Azure Database for MySQL ( a managed MySQL instance)  which has become publically available few days back.

2. MySQL In App (an instance hosted within App Service instance, basically your web app and mysql will be sharing the computing capabilities of the instance).

For the interest of the article, I will go with Option 2: MySQL InApp

Step 7: Specify App Service Plan /Location

As metioned in the spoiler we will go with a B1 Basic tier in West Europe location.

Step 8: Turn Application Insights ON and Specify location (This is optional, you do not want Application Insights performance logging for your blog, you can simply ignore)

Step 9: You are ready to go, click on [CREATE] to start the deployment.

Step 10: Now you see the deployment in progress message in Azure Portal.

Wait until this deployment is finished to setup WordPress initial configuration for use along with your custom domain.  We will continue with our setup in next part of this series.