Chapter 2. Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Deploying an Azure Website
  • Administering and monitoring a Website
  • Source versioning and continuous integration with Git and TFS
  • Logging abstraction from .NET and PHP
  • Deploying Java with Azure Websites

Introduction

Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive set of building blocks that can used as standalone or mixed services to get complex systems and services. Infrastructure-as-a-Service blocks, as virtual machines and/or virtual networks, in spite of being very common in the IT vendors' scenario, are actually great services. Today, the real value-added service in the cloud computing momentum is PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service).

The Azure Website is an advanced ...

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