Chapter 12. Preparing an Azure System for Production

In this last chapter, we're going to look at deploying our system to various environments for different stages of its life cycle. We'll explore the options for system configuration and create deployment packages manually on the Visual Studio Online Team Foundation build server. We'll finish this chapter by looking at monitoring and maintaining our Azure systems once they are live.

Project configurations for multiple environments

Until now, we've been publishing websites and cloud services straight from Visual Studio and using Entity Framework Code First Migrations to build our databases. Deploying systems to non-development environments from builds on a developer machine is not a good practice ...

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