Deploying a Website

Creating a Website is an administrative task, which is performed in the Azure Portal in the same way we provision every other building block. The Website created is like a "deployment slot", or better, "web space", since the abstraction given to the user is exactly that.

Azure Websites does not require additional knowledge compared to an old-school hosting provider, where FTP was the standard for the deployment process. Actually, FTP is just one of the supported deployment methods in Websites, since Web Deploy is probably the best choice for several scenarios. In the Source versioning and continuous integration with Git and TFS recipe, we will learn how to implement continuous integration with Websites, but since this is not always necessary, consider FTP and Web Deploy to be the fastest lane to go live with this service.

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Web Deploy is a Microsoft technology used for copying files and provisioning additional content and configuration to integrate...