Microsoft made their new Azure App Service Tools extension available today in the Visual Studio Marketplace. I had the opportunity to preview this extension and was very pleased. The process of provisioning and deploying the app service from VSCode was quite intuitive. I was able to "guess" my way through the process with my only wrong guess being how to start. I also very much appreciated that it generated reusable scripts (and opened them to make sure that you discovered them) as part of the process because I rarely work with projects where manual deployment from an IDE is desired.
The one thing I would like to see changed is that creation of the website did not subsequently deploy or ask me if I wanted to do so. Since I triggered the tool in the context of working with a project in VSCode, it's not likely that I just decided to create an app service that was unrelated to that project, but after going through the wizard and being offered a link to the provisioned site I was presented with default content instead of my deployed app. I would like to have seen the wizard generate the provisioning script and a deploy script and then execute both. With only one thing that I would prefer to see implemented differently, I 'd say overall great job and thank you Microsoft for continuing to make my job easier!