Deploying web packages to Azure

Now that we've got a package built on the build server, we'll deploy it to Azure using the following procedure:

  1. Create a website in the portal for one of the environments; I've called mine http://azurebakery-test.azurewebsites.net/.
  2. Download the publish profile from the website's dashboard, and open it in Visual Studio (you can press Ctrl + E, D to quickly format it).
  3. Unzip the drop package (make sure you unblock it first from the file properties) and copy the MyWebsite_Package folder to a temporary folder to make it easier to deploy.
  4. Locate the following parameter in the MyWebsite.SetParameters.xml file:
    <setParameter name="IIS Web Application Name" value="Default Web Site/CustomerWebsite_deploy" />
  5. Change the value ...

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