Windows deployment

In this section, we’ll learn how to deploy our HealthCheck web application on a Windows 2019 Datacenter Edition server hosted on MS Azure.

Here’s what we’re going to do:

• Create a new VM on MS Azure using the Windows 2022 Datacenter Edition template and configure it to accept inbound calls to TCP ports 3389 (for Remote Desktop), 80 (for HTTP), 443 (for HTTPS), and 22 (for SSH)
• Configure the VM by downloading and/or installing all the necessary services and runtimes to host the HealthCheck app
• Publish the HealthCheck app to the web server we’ve just set up
• Configure IIS to serve the app in the proper way
• Test the HealthCheck app from a remote client

Let’s get to work!

In this deployment example, we’re going to set up a brand-new VM on the MS Azure platform, which requires some additional work; those users who already have a production-ready Windows server should skip...