Setting Up Strapi with Azure Service Apps: A Comprehensive Guide

Strapi, an open-source headless CMS, allows businesses to create, edit, and manage content in the backend and deliver it via APIs across all digital touchpoints. Leveraging a robust hosting and deployment platform such as Azure is essential for seamlessly hosting your Strapi web app. Azure Service Apps offers various features like auto-scaling, continuous deployment, seamless integration with Azure ecosystem, increased security, and monitoring and analytics to ensure smooth operation of Strapi applications. To deploy Strapi on Azure, one needs an Azure account, Azure CLI, Node.js and NPM, PostgreSQL or MySQL, and Git installed. The process involves setting up Strapi locally, pushing it to GitHub, configuring Azure Service Apps plan, integrating with Azure Database for MySQL and Storage Account, using Deployment Center to integrate the GitHub repository, routing via API Gateway, implementing Web Application Firewall (WAF) for security, and optimizing performance using Azure Front Door.