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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition Over 70 advanced recipes for developing scalable services with the Microsoft Azure platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170327
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites 3. Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure 4. Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database 5. Going NoSQL with Azure Tables 6. Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus 7. Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries 8. Going In-memory with Azure Cache Index

Source versioning and continuous integration with Git and TFS

In the Deploying a Website recipe, we saw how to deploy a Website directly through FTP or Web Deploy. Those strategies are very fast and effective; however, they are not always suitable in complex scenarios because of the following reasons:

  • Developers cannot have direct access to the final endpoint or they should not even know what the final endpoint is
  • Automated builds/tests should be performed after each release and check in, centrally controlled on a specified server

These two scenarios involve new actors while deploying Websites; in addition to the Developer and the Website, now there is also the source repository. In this recipe, we see how to invert the process:

  • From:
    • Developer upgrades/updates the Website directly
  • To:
    • Developer saves his or her code somewhere
    • The Website takes that code and deploys it

This inversion of control makes the publishing process an administrative task by establishing a link between the Website and the...

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