Introduction

Took me a while on how to enforce https on the websites I have deployed using Azure App Service. The main blocker for me was getting a SSL/TLS certificate. Given I have mostly hobby websites, one of the options was to get a free one from https://letsencrypt.org. But it quickly became clear from their documentation that there is a learning curve! Then I found the easy way out, Azure App Service free managed certificate.

Azure App Service managed certificate

The Microsoft documentation itself is already very good, I will try to add the quick steps I did. Once we got a custom domain validated, then on it is quite simple.

Overall there are two main steps, create the certificate and then bind your custom domain.

Create App Service Managed Certificate

Add binding to secure custom domain

Conclusion

Although it has been nicely documented, took me a while to figure that these are the two main steps needed. Hence this post, hope it helps someone else get there a bit quicker. If you have any thoughts or comments please do get in touch with me on Twitter @rubberduckdev. Or use the Disqus plugin below.