Non-working web app using up-to-date Azure quickstart guide

[rieck-srlabs]

Please provide us with the following information:

This issue is for a: (mark with an x)

- [x] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ ] feature request
- [ ] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

1. Follow the official steps on Microsoft's website to deploy the example Python3.9-based web app.

Any log messages given by the failure

Local build and deployment works, however, the site is not accessible. The reason is a Flask dependency issue as documented here.

Expected/desired behavior

Web app accessible.

OS and Version?

Linux deployment on Azure app services

Versions

Python3.9

Mention any other details that might be useful

There are already multiple PRs attempting to fix this issue:

• Update requirements.txt to fix broken tutorial #33
• Modified Flask version in requirement.txt for solving dependency conflict #32
• Update requirements.txt #24

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[timgrossmann]

Really sad to see people actively contributing without microsoft merging PRs for their own documentation.
Spent nearly an hour trying to figure out what's wrong with my Azure Setup because I obviously thought the official Tutorials would work 😄