How to deploy an application to Windows Azure

In past articles, we have discussed how to create a "Hello World" application in Azure. In this article, we mainly discuss how to deploy the application to Windows Azure. To deploy an application in Azure, two files are required-a package file and a configuration file. Configuration file in CloudService1, called Serviceconfiguration.cscfg. To create a package file, you can "Right-click" on the Cloudservice item and click "Publish".

It then asks if you are creating a package file or publishing it to Azure.

If you select the first option, it creates a package file and opens the browser.

With the package file (. cspkg) and the configuration file (. cscfg), we can manage the Cloudstoragestudio of Azure service Management cmdlets,cerebrata through the admin portal, or Cerebrata Azure management cmdlets to deploy it. If we select the second option in the Release dialog box, we can upload it directly through Visual Studio. It requires a subscriptionid and a X509 v3 version of the certificate, as follows:

Then we must provide a deployment environment and a storage account.

Regardless of which option we choose, we need to:

1, a Windows Azure subscription-when we register Azure, a subscription is associated with our Live ID.

2, a Windows Azure Hosted service--We need to create a Hosted Service for deployment. It provides two types of deployment environments--production environments and test environments

3, a Windows Azure storage account-when we deploy through Visual Studio, the package files are first uploaded to the blob storage of the storage account and then deployed through the BLOB service.

Summarize the simple steps to deploy the application by managing the Portal:

1, to deploy the application, we need a package file and a configuration file.

2, to create a package file should click "Publish" and then select the only package file to create that option.

3, log on to the admin portal.

4, if you want to deploy the application in a new service, create a new hosted services.

5, then, in terms of deploying the environment, we can either deploy to a production environment or deploy to a test environment.

6, and then start deployment.

7, on the admin portal, you can see the progress of the deployment.

8. To remove a deployment, first click "Stop" and delete it after it stops.

Original name: Deploy Creator in Windows Azure Author: Reeta Singh Lodhi