I am creating foxx services, right now I am doing it in VS Code and uploading the zip file in the services section with a mount point in DEVELOPMENT mode. Now I want to quick edit the foxx service in web interface itself. I was reading this possible but for some reason I do not get an option to edit it using web interface. Am I missing some configuration/setting or something.
One way to do rapid development with Foxx is to use an IDE that automatically uploads modified files to a local 'deployment' location.
For example, if you use WebStorm IDE, and edit the files in a directory that is integrated with GIT, then you can checkout and check in your code.
WebStorm (or other IDE's as well) have a feature where they monitor edited files, and then automatically copy those files to a destination location.
You can set it up so that it notices when you save a file, then rather than zip it and deploy it via the web UI, it just copies the files to the directory that Foxx is using as the source of your web service.
If you have the Foxx service running in 'Development' mode, then it recompiles every invocation, so it will pick up the newly edited changes that just got copied in.
You need to find the target directory that you have your Foxx Service running out of, when you enable Development mode it will tell you the path in the Web UI.
Not sure if you can do that with VSCode, but if you can then that's the easiest way to do it.
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I have just deployed the basic NodeJS express app on Google Cloud Platform from IntelliJ IDEA. However I cannot find and browse the source files. I have searched in the Development tab, App Engine tab and it shows the project but not the actual files. I can access the application from my browser and it is running fine. I can see the activity and requests everything coming into the application but I cannot see the source files. I tried searching for them in the terminal Google Cloud Console and I cannot locate the files in there either. It's puzzling because I don't know where the files are being served from.
AFAIK seeing the live app code/static content directly in the developer console is not possible (at least not yet), not even for the standard environment apps.
For apps using the flexible environment (that includes node.js apps) accessing the live app source code may be even more complex as what's actually executed on GAE is a container image/docker file (as opposed to plain app code source file from a standard environment app). From Deploying your program:
Deploy your app using the gcloud app deploy command. This command
automatically builds a container image for you by using the Container
Builder service (Beta) before deploying the image to the App
Engine flexible environment control plane. The container will include
any local modifications you've made to the runtime image.
Since the container images are fundamentally dockerfiles it might be possible to extract their content using the docker export command:
Usage: docker export [OPTIONS] CONTAINER
Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive
Options:
--help Print usage
-o, --output string Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
The docker export command does not export the contents of volumes
associated with the container. If a volume is mounted on top of an
existing directory in the container, docker export will export the
contents of the underlying directory, not the contents of the
volume.
One way of checking the exact structure of the deployed app (at least in the standard environment) is to download the app code and check it locally - may be useful if suspected incorrect app deployment puts a question mark on the local app development repository from where deployment originated. Not sure if this is possible with the flexible environment, tho.
The accepted answer to the recent Deploy webapp on GAE then do changes online from GAE console post appears to indicate that reading and maybe even modifying live app code might be possible (but I didn't try it myself and it's not clear if it would also work for the flexible environment).
I want to deploy multiple databases using the Bluemix XPages runtime.
In the manifest.yml file, I specified these database names:
test1.nsf,application.nsf
I tried to git, deploy using designer,and use the REST API, but the result on console still looks the same:
What am I doing wrong?
To do this would not actually require changes to the manifest file. Also, it isn't supported by the Bluemix tooling in Domino Designer, but it is still possible to do what you want.
Put simply, whatever you put into the "deployment directory" of your Bluemix app, will be deployed there. So if you want multiple NSF files to be deployed to Bluemix, then you need to make a copy of each NSF inside the deployment directory. Then deploy the application. (Designer does this copy step automatically during the deploy process for the NSF you have configured for Bluemix deployment, but as I say the tooling doesn't support multiple NSF deployment to a single Bluemix app.)
You can deploy with the Designer tooling or the CF CLI tool, but either way all your NSF files should be reachable on Bluemix after deployment and staging are complete.
You didn't make clear where in the manifest you were making changes, but seems you need to change it back so that only one NSF is listed in that setting. What's important here is the content of the deployment directory.
To the best of my knowledge: The Bluemix runtime takes ONE database that contains your application. Hence the runtime looks for a file test1.nsf,application.nsf which obviously doesn't exist.
It is the same patter as with other runtimes: e.g. you can't deploy 2 war files into a Websphere Liberty Java runtime.
My guess: the second database could work as a data source - you would need to configure it as a service (experimental in Bluemix) or host it on a Domino accessible to Bluemix.
Hope that helps
Is there a way to copy only modified files to Service Fabric.
I have a Service Fabric application containing an ASP. Net 5 application as service. Whenever am doing a change to a JavaScript file inside my ASP. Net 5 service, every time I need to copy the entire service fabric application package. Is there a command which allows to copy only the modified file?
The best way to accomplish this is to use diff packaging and app upgrade. See this link for more info: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-application-upgrade-advanced/. Diff packaging allows you to define an application package that only contains the package parts that you wish to upgrade. However, it only applies to a component of an application package, such as a Service or Code package for example. You can't create a diff package at the file level. So if you've only changed a single file in your code package, you must include that file along with every other file that belongs to the code package. You can't just include the single file that changed. But the benefit of diff packaging is that you'd only need to include that single code package. You wouldn't need to provide other Service's code packages, for example, assuming they haven't been changed.
Service Fabric SDK 2.5 brings in a preview feature called "Refresh Application".
Using this feature you can get quicker feedback of your code changes.
To enable that, set the following from project properties
Application Debug mode = Refresh Application.
More details and limitations can be found here:
https://sharepointforum.org/threads/speed-up-service-fabric-development-with-the-new-refresh-application-debug-mode.111162/
In Fabric Explorer you need to find the node where you Web Application is running. I my case that is _Node_0
By SF SDK design, local SF published file is under C:\SfDevCluster\Data_App\ . In my environment, the website file path is C:\SfDevCluster\Data_App_Node_0\Application1Type_App1\Web1Pkg.Code.1.0.0\wwwroot\
So you can also find your HTML, CSS, JS and other static resources under below path: C:\SfDevCluster\Data_App[node_id][application_type_and_instance_name][service_type_and_version]\
You can just modify the files in this folder, then the change will immediately apply to your local test web browser. Please notice if your service is hosted by micro-service running in several nodes, you may need to modify all nodes files because load balancer may access any folder files randomly.
For a project I am currently working on, I need to create a setup application for an existing desktop application. The setup application will be downloaded from a website, and will download required files to the correct locations. When the application is started, it will look for newer versions of these files, download them if any exist, then start the application.
I am using Visual Studio Online with TFVC, linked to Azure. I have a test application set up so that when I trigger a build, Release Management finds the build directory, and moves the files to Azure Blob Storage, but prepends a GUID to the file names being transferred. So what I have in my storage container is:
{Some GUID}/2390/Test.exe
{Some GUID}/2389/Test.exe
{Some GUID}/2387/Test.exe
...
What I want in my container is the latest version of Test.exe, so I can connect to the container, and determine whether I want to download or not.
I have put together a NullSoft installer that checks a website, and downloads files. I have also written a NullSoft "launcher" that will compare local file versions with versions on the website (using a version xml file on the website), and download if newer, then launch the application. What I need to figure out is how to get the newer files to the website after a build, with automation being one of the goals.
I am an intern, and new to deployment in general, and I don't even know if I'm going about this the right way.
Questions:
Does what I am doing make sense for what I am trying to accomplish?
We are trying to emulate ClickOnce functionality, but can't use ClickOnce due to the fact that the application dynamically loads a number of DLLs. Is there a way to configure ClickOnce to include non-referenced DLLs?
Is there a best practice for doing what I'm describing?
I appreciate any advice, links to references, or real-world examples.
You are mentioning ClickOnce, which you investigated but can't use. Have you already tried an alternative: Squirrel? With Squirrel you can specify which files should be part of the installation, allowing you to explicitly specify which files to include even if you load them dynamically.
Link: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows
Squirrel is a full framework for creating an auto-update application and can work with Azure Blob Storage hosting (and also CDN if you need to scale up)
I have a Ruby on Rails application that needs to find a home in an Azure Worker Role.
I currently automate the deployment of the application with a batch file - a file that takes the apache and ruby installers, runs them, and then drops the RoR app in the appropriate directory. After the batch script finishes, Apache is serving to and from the application via port 80.
I'm new to Azure and trying to figure out how to do this.
From my understanding, I have two options here: OnStart with the installation files in Blob Storage, or a startup script. I'm not sure how to do the latter, but I have located the onStart method within the WorkerRole.vb file in the new Azure project I just created.
My question: Is it recommended to use OnStart to deploy the application (using the batch script)? If so, how would I go about integrating the script into the project? And - how do I get started with storing and referencing the files in blob storage?
I know these are super high-level questions. Any input or suggested reading would be super helpful. I have tried to google / search for relevant resources but haven't been able to find much. Thank you for your time!
When you are inside OnStart() function it is better to do role configuration things i.e. IP binding, etc however if you would want to install runtime, download application zip, configured role specific setting, it is best to use Startup task. Please visit my blog Windows Azure: Startup task or OnStart(), which to choose? to learn more about it.
Now in your case it is best to use Startup task. What you can do it as below:
Create your ROR package a zip and place it at Windows Azure Blob Storage
Create a Cmmmand batch file which will do:
2.1 Download the ZIP
2.2 Unzip to Zip content to a specific location
2.3 Update the status back to AZure Blob Storage (Optional)
In your OnStart() function you just need to configure the ROR
The code will look as below if you have TCP Endpoint name "RORWeb80" set to use port 80:
TcpListener RoRPortListener = new TcpListener(RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.InstanceEndpoints["RORWeb80"].IPEndpoint);
RoRPortListener.Start();
I have written a sample app for Tomcat/Java based worker role which does exactly the same. So what you can do it just replace the Tomcat ZIP file with ROR ZIP and reuse the code exactly.
As long as you don't need admin-level access (e.g. modifying registry, installing msi's, etc.) you can do your setup from OnStart(), including launching your script. Just include the startup script with your project (don't forget to set Copy Local to true).
Same goes with startup script: you call your cmd file, which then executes the sequence for you. And if you give it elevated permissions, you can run installers, modify registry settings, install custom perf counters, whatever.
In either case: you can keep your apache zip, ruby installers, etc. in blob storage and, at startup, download them to local storage. This saves you from bundling everything within the deployment, which gives you a few advantages (being able to update ruby / apache without redeploy, reduced package size, etc.).
There's a sample app on codeplex that demonstrates the basics of setting up Tomcat via startup script. For one more example, you can look at the scripts installed via Eclipse Windows Azure plugin for Java. These scripts are quite similar. The key is to have some way of downloading files from blob storage and then unzipping them. the codeplex project I referred to points to a sample app that does simple blob downloading. The Eclipse packaging provides similar functionality in a .vbs app. Here's a snippet of one of my scripts from an Eclipse-based project:
SET SERVER_DIR_NAME=apache-tomcat-7.0.25
SET WAR_NAME=myapp.war
rd "\%ROLENAME%"
mklink /D "\%ROLENAME%" "%ROLEROOT%\approot"
cd /d "\%ROLENAME%"
cscript /NoLogo util\unzip.vbs jre7.zip "%CD%"
cscript /NoLogo util\unzip.vbs tomcat7.zip "%CD%"
copy %WAR_NAME% "%SERVER_DIR_NAME%\webapps\%WAR_NAME%"
cd "%SERVER_DIR_NAME%\bin"
set JAVA_HOME=\%ROLENAME%\jre7
set PATH=%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin
cmd /c startup.bat
The codeplex project has a similar-looking script.
Don't forget: you'll need to set up an Input Endpoint for your role (part of the role properties).
To get blobs into blob storage, there are both free tools (like Clumsy Leaf CloudXplorer and paid tools (such as Cerebrata's Cloud Storage Studio).
To download blobs to local storage, you can either write a few lines of .net code (from OnStart) or just use the utility pointed to in the codeplex project.