I have received $200 credit to host my 2 Windows Azure Cloud projects on AWS. Just wondering what the quick and dirty process is to migrate my Visual studio projects to being published on the AWS cloud?
I could seem to find much documentation available, with the exception that apparently it's possible.
Are you using Cloud Services (web role), an Azure Web Site, or a VM? Depending on how the ASP.NET MVC code is written, you could provision whatever compute capability you need in AWS and deploy there.
The blob storage would likely be the problem. That is unless the code has an abstraction layer to isolate the app from storage implementation details. Azure blob storage and whatever you using in AWS have different platform APIs.
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I have a complete running cloud service application upgraded to latest Azure SDK version and unfortunately need to dump this into a CSP subscription. But I came to know that Azure CSP supports only the Azure Resource Manager model, the cloud service is a classic deployment model. So we cannot create a cloud service within a CSP subscription.
Is there any other alternative within Azure CSP to using "cloud service" so that we can migrate with minimal changes. Please help
Firstly, here are some good reads on Microsoft Docs to help comparing the options available and make decisions based on your requirements:
(I mean requirements like Hosting features, Service Limits, 3rd party software installation and RDP access is required or not, Network isolation to a separate VNET is required or not, Cost considerations, minimum SLA, Regions available, instant deployment and auto-scaling, state management etc.):
Azure App Service, Virtual Machines, Service Fabric, and Cloud Services comparison
Decision tree for Azure compute services (This one covers a big spectrum.. simple virtual machines, Batch, Functions, Containers, AKS, ServiceFabric)
Criteria for choosing an Azure Compute Service
Also know that when looking for alternatives, it's not uncommon to make use of multiple compute or other Azure service options by breaking up an older solution into parts at the time of such migration (for e.g. A serverless compute option like Azure Function + Service Fabric + something else if needed).
Generally speaking (and without knowing much about your application from your question currently), Azure App Service and Service Fabric could be considerations IMHO when migrating from an existing Cloud Service, but this is exactly where detailed requirements help you in decision making.
On a side note, here is a list of Azure Services available in CSP - Available Azure services in Azure CSP
Is this even possible? I have a couple web apps and a couple of Azure Functions running under the same App Service Plan. I'd like to (ideally) have them use a specific Storage plan, so I can keep everything in one place. I envision them in different containers under the same plan.
If that's not possible...then where are the files? Are they on the storage that's built into the App Service Plan itself? If so, can I connect to this somehow, so I can manage the files through something like Storage Explorer?
Today when playing with the Azure Az Powershell tool I found I was able to provision a Function App without a Azure Storage back-end. This cannot be done via the UI. An easy way to provision a Function App with a storage account backend is by leveraging the Azure UI for provisioning.
When a Function App is provisioned via command line, the bits seem to be stored within the function app itself. There is an FTP URL given if you download the publish profile. The files can be read and written to using an FTP tool like WinSCP (as alternative to Kudu)
I'd like to (ideally) have them use a specific Storage plan, so I can keep everything in one place. I envision them in different containers under the same plan. If that's not possible...then where are the files?
Every Azure Web App has a home directory stored/backed by Azure Storage. More detail info please refer to Azure WebApp sandbox. It is owned by Azure WebApp Service, we are not able to choose Azure Storage to setup WebApp by ourselves currently. But we could config storage account for Azure WebApp Diagnostic logs.
Are they on the storage that's built into the App Service Plan itself? If so, can I connect to this somehow, so I can manage the files through something like Storage Explorer?
Different WebApp Service Plan has different volume of the storage. We could use Kudu tool (https://yoursite.scm.azurewebsites.net) to manage the files. More detail info about Kudu please refer to the document.
Update:
We could access the home directory with the Kudu tool. More details please refer to the snapshoot
For Azure automation we used Management Libraries in order to provision Cloud Services & BLOB Storage along with SQL Database. This seem to be no longer maintained. Shall we stop using this in production?
Need to provision:
Azure Web APP
SQL Database
BLOB
Azure Search Index
Any authoritative information on the recommended approach now, would be much helpful. Thanks.
As you may already know Azure Management Library is a wrapper over Azure Service Management API (ASM) which provided a REST based interface to manage the underlying infrastructure. Old Azure Portal (https://management.azure.com) makes use of ASM API.
Azure Resource Manager API (ARM) is the new REST based intefface to manage underlying infrastructure. ARM is more robust, feature rich and will be used going forward. New Azure Portal (https://portal.azure.com) makes use of ARM API.
Eventually old portal will be removed and you should be able to do all the things on the new portal. When that will happen is not generally known (someone from Azure product team will be able to comment on that). Until then, both ASM and ARM will be supported and after that ASM will be removed (or not supported).
General recommendation would be to start using ARM API wherever possible. Only use ASM API for the features that have not been ported to ARM API. You mentioned that you are using Azure Web APP, SQL Database, BLOB, and Azure Search Index. To the best of my knowledge, all of these are supported in ARM so the recommendation would be to use that instead of ASM. In fact, I think Azure Search is only supported via ARM and not ASM.
I can't find any information on which the currently advised library to use is.
However, a few weeks ago Simpler Azure Management Libraries for .NET was released into preview. It might be worth checking it out and keeping an eye on it for the future.
At the moment it seems only capable of managing Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Storage, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault and Batch. However, since this is a preview, MS is asking developers to provide feedback and what they would like to see support next.
Has Any one tried implementing deployment of Azure CSPKG deployment programmatically using Service Management REST API. Please share with me any guideline or website which explain me clearly. Especially I Want my Web ROle to deploy the Worker ROle where package is in Azure blob storage.
Check out this article by Neil Mackenzie. This covers working with the REST API to perform deployments. Also, you could check out the code that is used under the hood by the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets by looking in the code on GitHub.
We are putting up a asp.net webapi project on azure. It also does a few other things so it couldnt go up as an azure website. Our IT guy set it up on a Azure Virtual machine.
I've read we'd be more beneficial to run it as a cloud service (cost wise and also maintenance wise).
I'm just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to convert an azure virtual machine to an azure cloud service?
Thanks
You can't really convert an Azure VM into an Azure Cloud Service. What you could do is deploy your application as a cloud service. Once everything's working well, you can then deploy that application into a cloud service.