I am building a ASP.Net Core Web App which I am trying to host in the Azure portal. We have requirement that these Applications can be accessed only certain times in a week, those times are stored in the Azure Database. Is it possible to make the App Available/Accessible to the users upon looking at database

Here the Setting is that the application should be available only between 14:00 - 16:30 on TUESDAY. When I tried to research we can schedule tasks/workflows in the portal but couldnt find what I am looking for. All I wanted to know is this requirement possible, if so please share the idea.. I am new Web App development and Azure deployment, any help is greatly appreciated

CodePudding user response：

This feature is not available in Azure out of the box. This is something you will have to handle yourself.

One obvious way to implement this would be to check if the application should be available on every request. If the request day and time falls between the available times set in the database, you show your users the website content otherwise show them some kind of not available message.

A more complicated way would be to make use of App_offline.htm file to make your site unavailable. You can dynamically add/delete App_offline.htm file to your WebApp based on the day/time when you want your site to be offline/online.

However please note that while your site is offline, you will still be charged for the WebApp as the resources keep remain provisioned.

CodePudding user response：

You can use Azure Automation Service to orchestrate processes like this. You will have to create a runbook (script in python or powershell) that will query the DB and figure out the times when the Azure Website hosting your webapplication should be started or stopped.