Introducing Windows Azure- P62 pdf

CHAPTER 9 ■ DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 303 Deploying Cloud Applications Now let’s see how to deploy a cloud application. 1. Select Hosted Services after you have signed in from the Azure portal, as Figure 9-7 shows. Figure 9-7. Select the Hosted Services from the portal to deploy an application to the cloud CHAPTER 9 ■ DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 304 2. Enter a name for the application that will be hosted from the cloud. The maximum length of the name that can be entered is 20 characters, and the name should be unique, as Figure 9-8 shows. Characters more than 20 will be truncated Figure 9-8. Verify the available name for the application name CHAPTER 9 ■ DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 305 Staging Deployment Staging deployment (shown in Figure 9-9) is the step where an application runs in pre-production. In this status the application should be fully functional. This provides an opportunity for you to do testing and final tuning in the remote cloud environment. If the application has never been deployed before, then when the Deploy button is pressed the application will be given Staging status and should be fully functional. Revisit this page after testing and deploy the application from Staging to Production as Figure 9-13 shows. Figure 9-9. Staging deployment is one step before an application is hosted in production CHAPTER 9 ■ DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 306 Select the Application Package and Configuration Package At this step you need to provide the path for both the compiled package file and the configuration package file, as Figure 9-10 shows. Figure 9-10. Select the application package and configuration package file for deployment CHAPTER 9 ■ DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 307 Running a Hosted Application Figure 9-11 shows that a web role is running from the cloud. Double-click on the URL to access the service provided by that web role. Figure 9-11. An example of a web role hosted and run from the cloud