I want to apply winnovative html to pdf converter for one of my solution in azure function, but during installation it says use of Cloud service, which seems to be outdated. Do we install it using Azure App service?
I took the liberty to download the latest version of the HtmlToPdf application, pushed it to GitHub, and deployed it to an Azure App Service (lowest tier, free).
You can see it running here: https://so-htmltopdf.azurewebsites.net/
I have also included the Azure template for the App Service, which includes the configuration for deploying directly from GitHub.
Assuming Winnovative is a 3rd party tool, you'll need to use Virtual Machines or Containers, where you have control over the file system.
PS: You can run Azure Functions on Containers/ Virtual Machines using the official image.
https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-azure-functions-base
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I am a software vendor with a .net web solution that I want customers to be able to easily install / deploy into Azure Web Web Apps / Azure Websites along with a Sql Azure backend. I can't find any installer tool that supports this scenario. I have also looked into the Azure Marketplace but it seems the only option there is to create VM images. I want my customer's to avoid having to deploy to an manage VMs and adopt the IaaS model. Instead they should be able to install to Azure Web Apps with a package that copies all the web solution files and installs and connects the Azure Sql. Is this possible or will I have to manually deploy and configure Azure solution for each customer?
You can use the VS Marketplace to do the deployment. What you need is to create an ARM template. There is a huge number of samples here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates - you can pick one of the web app ones - for example: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/templates/201-web-app-sql-database/ - has a SQL database linked to a web app.
The ARM template allows you to do a "no-hands" deployment of the resources and know when they are ready for further action. You can also deploy from any of the supported continuous deployment options (see the template with a GitHub connection as an example) or you can use ftp/msdeploy after the deployment is successful.
This is a good tutorial https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/vs-azure-tools-resource-groups-deployment-projects-create-deploy
This is the github example mentioned in previous answer
https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/201-web-app-github-deploy
I am currently looking into using ARM to deploy new environments of our Azure Components. We have a lot of web apis that are deployed to Cloud Services, since we need access to the underlying OS to get CPU usage for App Dynamics metrics. When reading through ARM, it seems as if they are deprecating Cloud Services, but I have some confusion about what is replacing it. I see that you can create Web Apps using this and use Publish from Visual Studio to deploy the app it, but I see no options for Cloud Services. So what is the preferred method to do this? Creating a VM and deploying using Web Deploy? What about VM scaling. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My company is in the process of moving a legacy app to Azure using Cloud Services and we were concerned about the future of Cloud Services. Since we are somewhat early into the project and would like to use the ARM model we thought it would be easier to make a move now if we knew the future. After a few conversations with project leads at Microsoft on this topic we were only told that we should continue working with Cloud Services as they would continue to be supported.
It's quite clear that the move to ARM was not well thought out in terms of direction and consequences of existing services that many people are already using. Reading between the lines I would say that there is no plan to convert Cloud Services from the ASM to ARM model.
If application insights (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/application-insights/) are sufficient for your monitoring needs, then you can use web apps. These can be deployed via ARM, and can automatically deploy from a git repo or web deploy package. See this example:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/201-web-app-github-deploy
The issue here that you may be trying to do operations which are restricted by the web app sandbox.
Failing that, you can use an ARM template to set up a VM and then invoke a custom site extension which will run powershell code to do further provisioning. This powershell code can fetch any package that you may want to install. See this ARM template for example: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/9ad72f1f5f0008c14311be79eee036b871712394/201-list-storage-keys-windows-vm
Once the VM is created you would be able to modify it and scale as needed.
I am using Mac to try to deploy NodeJs on Windows Azure Cloud Azure, but the official documents are about NodeJs under Windows, I created a new Cloud Service, but it needed me to upload .cscfg and .cspkg, I searched documents and Google but found nothing useful. And what I want to know is how to write .cscfg and .cspkg file.
Could you give me some documents or articles, or point me a direction to solve this problem?
Thank you for your help.
The cspkg file is the "package" that need to be compiled for uploading to Windows Azure PaaS Cloud Services. Unfortunately, this package can only be created via the cspack command line tool (part of the Windows Azure SDK) for Windows OS (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg432988.aspx). You can also learn more about the format of the package file at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj151522.aspx
The cscfg is a configuration file (just a specially names XML file) who's schema can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee758710.aspx
If you do not have a specific need for Cloud Services, you can deploy a node application to Azure Web Sites.
There is a lab for this available. I have actually worked with this functionality for quite a while. You will find the deployment times to be significantly faster than with Cloud Services. Much more in line with what you would expect from a node environment.
I made this java project in netbeans (it has a gui and uses files serialization) I have searched in the web for ways to deploy netbeans applications on azure however it seems that only eclipse has that feature. Thus, I am wondering if there is any way or method to deploy a netbeans application on MS Azure?
Microsoft provides a plugin for Eclipse for packaging Java applications for deployment as Windows Azure cloud services. This plugin is not available for Netbeans.
An alternative would be to deploy to a Windows Azure virtual machine instead of a cloud service. See instructions at How to run a Java application server on a virtual machine.
Another alternative would be to use a third-party tool such as Cloudify for Azure.
You can only create Cloud Service via the Eclipse enter link description here or via MS VS.
But you can still use NetBean to develop your application and use Eclipse/VS to manage your Cloud Service package. The package will contain the app server, its configuration and your wars/ears.
To make you life easier, you can update your Cloud Service package to download the application archive (and the app server and its configuration) from blob storage. This way no need to create a new complete package when the app is updated, you only need to upload the new war/ear and restart the instances. This will greatly increase your development efficiency.
you can do it in 3 steps
1) update your netbeans to version 7.4 and above
2) push you project to github repository
3)publish your web app from the github repository you just updated.
Is it possible to port existing node.js applications to Windows Azure platform? I currently develop on my Mac but will need to deploy the application to Windows Azure in a near future.
You may also want to check a video on Channle 9.
node.js on Azure : http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Patterns-Practices-Symposium-Online/Patterns-Practices-Symposium-Online-2012/node-js-on-Azure
Yes it is very much possible. You may also need to consider to make changes to use Azure Blob storage where your node.js code is using local file system (if required). The deployment is very similar to any other Windows Azure App and one you have Azure SDK for node.js you can use powershell cmdlets to make your job easy.
Download Node.js SDK for Azure
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/
Here you can learn the basics to deploy node.js app to Azure:
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/tutorials/getting-started/
Porting node.js apps to Azure is possible but not yet a yes/no answer.
You can run your Node apps in Azure but you need to look at the modules you're using to make sure you aren't depending on a tool or command or other facility that isn't yet available on Azure. For example, are you using a database like redis or couchDB or mysql? These don't exist natively in Azure so you may or may not be able to port that layer -- you'll have to check.
Since you're on a Mac, there isn't yet a native OS X deployment tool. Microsoft and the Cloud9 folks have been showing a way for Macs to deploy from the Cloud9 IDE which works but the Mac story will most assuredly improve over time. I work on a Mac but I keep a Windows VM open (Parallels) and if I deploy from the desktop I've been using the Powershell cmdlets in the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js which makes things fairly turnkey from Windows.
You will want to follow a couple of repos and their contributors: Azure SDK for Node, which allows native access to Azure Storage via npm install azure and iisnode (on Github) which is a component that assists your node app running under IIS (the Windows Web Server) on Azure.
It's been great to see the Node story on Azure evolve; it's still just a little early but they seem to be making great progress quickly.