Azure Maven Plugin for Web Apps Does NOT Allow the Use of Existing App Service Plans

[selvasingh]

Plugin name and version

Azure Maven Plugin for Web Apps 0.1.5

Plugin configuration in your pom.xml

Any configuration

Expected behavior

Should allow the use of existing app service plans

Actual behavior

Does not allow the use of existing app service plans. It creates an app service plan for every deploy. This limits the use of the Maven plugin because there are subscription limits - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits#app-service-limits. There are known issues to cleanup app service plans which further aggravates developers. We have run into these limits several times now and then had to open support tickets to clean up app service plans. This creates FRICTION for developers.

The Azure Management Libraries for Java make it simple to use existing App Service Plans.

Steps to reproduce the problem

Just keep running one of the sample deployments to Azure Web Apps

[selvasingh]

@jdneo - please take a look at this issue