i have azure role hosted as cloud service, i am trying to install the application initialization as suggested in below link:
http://fabriccontroller.net/blog/posts/iis-8-0-application-initialization-module-in-a-windows-azure-web-role
but how will all my sites in this single WebRole will remain warmed up?
I have followed up the steps told in above link. But not sure how it will managed with multiple websites in single role.
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We are developing an online CRM Saas product in .Net Framework. Now we want to provide this service to anyone.
Any user wants to use or try our service they just need to put a few basic details and click on Sign up.
There is one best example of my above statement is confluence, as soon as I sign up with some site name my confluence portal is stared.
https://www.atlassian.com/try/cloud/signup?bundle=confluence
Now how to do the same in Azure, I have only files and folder of my application. How to create separate websites for multiple users with a single domain name. If I programmatically created multiple azure apps using Azure ARM then it becomes very difficult to maintain our product. How to do achieve this functionality.
To host multiple apps under a single domain, if you’re leveraging Azure Web App and deploy your web applications to each virtual directory with the name which could identify your web application.
You could keep your web sites in separate projects and use the ‘virtual directories and applications’ settings in Azure to publish the two different projects under the same site.
Go to WebApp -> Settings -> Application Settings -> Virtual applications and directories.
In Web Apps, each site and its child applications run in the same application pool. If your site has multiple child applications utilizing multiple application pools, consolidate them to a single application pool with common settings or migrate each application to a separate web app.
You may want to check the blog post Deploying multiple virtual directories to a single Azure Website for more details.
Also, you could also use Application Gateway infront of your app since you can do path based routing with app gateway i.e testing.com/one points to one web app and testing.com/another points to the other app. You could start out with the example below the modify the back end to use path-based routing. Kindly refer the links below one that covers the basics of configuring the App Gateway with a WebApp and one discussing path based routing:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/waws/2017/11/21/setting-up-application-gateway-with-an-app-service-that-uses-azure-active-directory-authentication/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-gateway/application-gateway-create-url-route-portal#create-a-path-based-routing-rule
I have been using Visual Studio to manage and develop an application that runs on a Windows Azure web role. It's an ASP.Net WebApi Application that connects to a backend SQL Azure Database. The code base is hosted on GitHub.
I have read about Monaco and its ability to edit Windows Azure Web Sites but I have not seen any references to the tool being used or able to be used to change a Web Role.
Is this possible with Monaco?
That feature is built into the Azure environment for Websites only. The deployment model for Web and Worker Roles differs substantially from that used for Websites.
I'm working on a project that includes an ASP.NET Web API site to be consumed by an Android and iOS app. The API is connected to a SQL Server database. I'm at a point where I want to publish my project to the Azure Cloud, but am trying to figure out what would be the best configuration.
The configuration needs to be scalable and reliable as the plans for this product will be accessed by many at the consumer level.
API Hosting
What do I use within Azure to host the API? Do I go with the Azure Web Site service? Or the Cloud service? or something else? I know I don't want to go Virtual Machine as I don't want to have a lot of maintenance.
One thing I should add here, I plan on having a Test/Qual environment as well as a Production environment in Azure.
SQL Database
This one seems easy for me, I will need to utilize the SQL Database service through Azure.
Scheduler
I have one final need of various jobs that need to run at night on some form of schedule. Would you agree that utilizing the Azure Scheduler service would be much cheaper than having either a Cloud service or Virtual Machine running scheduled tasks? Instead I could use Scheduler to utilize various web services at set times?
While Azure Web sites and Azure Web roles (cloud services) are very similar, the below are the most notable differences in my opinion:
Web Roles are cheaper than Web sites. There is a free offering for websites, but it has significant drawbacks.
Web sites are easier to manage and operate
You can deploy web sites from git.
You can use remote desktop to connect to Web roles.
You can use Worker Roles for background tasks from Web roles. Recently Websites introduced web roles which lessens the need for worker roles, note that this is as of today still in beta.
I wanted to host my WebApi project on azure. But I am not getting sure which way should i use to run it on azure. Like there are Websites, Cloud Services that contain Web role and Worker role. Then which one should i choose. If cloud service is the option then which one out of Web role and worker role is good?
Any help is appreciated.
For hosting a simple web API (that you can scale according to usage, etc.) you'll want to use Websites. Assuming you're not looking for more complex / heavy-weight features (network configuration, more complex architectures e.g. offloading background processing different instances via queueing mechanisms, RDP into the host machine, etc.), then Websites are becoming the de-facto way to host websites on Azure.
The following page from the Azure documentation will give you a full feature comparison between the two:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/choose-web-site-cloud-service-vm/, but in short, if you simply have a web API project in VS that you want to host in Azure without worrying about the underlying infrastructure, then use Websites.
If you only want to host a Headless (No Web Interface) Web API, I recommend you using Azure Web Service - Web Role.
For Worker Role, it is like a console application that you want to use it to process background task. Normally, we use it to process from Message Queue (Azure Service Bus - Queue).
Azure create a Optimize VM to run those two type of Roles with no unnecessary junks. So you will get the most of it.
However, I still suggest you to read more detail document from azure website to see what environment which is best fit for your long term plan.
You need to login in Azure (https://manage.windowsazure.com) -> Web Sites -> Create New
After that you will find the Name of the Web Site Under the Web Sites.
Click Web Sites -> Select New Created Web Site -> Go TO -> Deployement
In Deployement -> Find -> Integrate source control
Select Appropriate Option i.e GitHub or Dropbox etc..
Using Dropbox => Now Publish your WebApi Project and Paste that Data into Dropbox Folder With the same name of your New Created Web Site in Azure
After Upload Go To -> Azure -> Select Web Site -> Deployement -> Sync.
It will take all the data from Dropbox and You can run your WebApi Project From Azure
More Details Link, Link2, Link3
I have a windows azure web role that has 2 instances. I would like to web deploy to these instances from VS as to avoid doing a full deployment that takes ~ 10 - 15 minutes.
I know this used to be possible with the [now deprecated] Azure Accelerator for Web Roles. Is this possible now?
Web Deploy still works, but only for single instances and only for testing purposes (ie. you can't use it for a production site where you expect the changes to persist across VM reimages or node movements).
See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cloud/archive/2011/04/19/enabling-web-deploy-for-windows-azure-web-roles-with-visual-studio.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff683672.aspx.
To enable Web Deploy, you must install the Windows Azure Tools and the Windows Azure SDK from the Microsoft Web Installer 3.0 page of the Microsoft website.
But, be aware, you cannot have multiple instances of any web role in your deployment environment. However, multiple web roles each with only one instance are supported.