Deploy First Azure Application

Author: Jake

Go directly to Source
Now Let’s Deploy this Application to Cloud. Right click on the FirstCloudApp project and select Publish from the context menu

Once the publish process is complete, Visual Studio will open the directory where the service package was created and It will also launch the default browser and navigate to the Azure Services developer portal

Click on the New Project Link and then Click on Hosted Services Project

Give the project a name and click Next

Specify a sub-domain for the app. In this CTP, this is hosted on cloudapp.net domain.

Click on Deploy to start Staging

Browse to the path where the package and configuration files were earlier published from Visual Studio. Provide a label for deployment and then click Deploy, This will upload the package and configuration files to Azure Services portal

At this stage, you can click the Run button to start up the virtual instances for each webrole. Once the instances are started, the package i.e assemblies, ASPX pages which we uploaded earlier will be deployed

Now, you can see the status changing from Allocated to Initializing

Now, at this stage both the roles are started.

Now, Click on Sync button to promote the app from Staging to Production

Now, We can see the Production Environment is started and this completes the entire process of deployment. And, voila your application is hosted in the cloud

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