Microsoft have made it extremely easy, almost trivial to deploy your web applications to the Azure cloud from Visual Studio. Cloud capability is incredibly powerful for scalability, particularly in enterprise level applications and affords Developers with the option to make their infrastructure as Agile as their Software.
Outcome
By the end of this tutorial, we’ll have deployed our Web Application directly into a Web Site in Azure using their Platform as a Service offering (PaaS), meaning we don’t need to worry about a Virtual Machine, updates, and a myriad of other concerns.
Implementation
Publish to Azure
Right click your WebAPI project and Select Publish:
Choose Microsoft Azure App Service:
Now we need to create our App Service. We need to provide :
- a Web App Name;
- a subscription type;
- a Resource Group;
- an app Service Plan
You can think of a Resource Group as a collection of related infrastructure. For example this blog runs in a Web App in Azure, in a Resource Group that also contains it’s database. You can partition your environment any way you like but in an enterprise you may choose to have a Resource Group per environment or per Layer, etc.
An App Service plan is how you are planning to pay for it and the scale of the machine you wish to create.
Create it.
Deploy to Azure
With our App Service Created, we can now publish to it.
…and we’re done…
Try it: https://morsecoderwebapi.azurewebsites.net/api/translator
Summary
Where are we?
- We have a fully functional translator Web API deployed to Windows Azure.
Where are we heading?
- Consuming our new Endpoint from our UWP app;
- Implementing a LiveTileUpdate;
- Making the app User Experience (UX) more friendly.
Mike Childs 