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CI Deployment Of Azure Web Roles Using TeamCity
After recently migrating an important new website to use Windows Azure “Web Roles” I wanted an easier way to deploy new versions to the Azure Staging environment as well as a reliable process to rollback deployments to a certain “known good” source control commit checkpoint. By configuring our JetBrains’ TeamCity CI server to utilize Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets to create new automated deployments, I’ll show you how to take control of your Azure publish process.
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Git Deployment To An Azure WebSite: Keeping Configuration Secrets
Windows Azure recently introduced their “Websites” concept which allows quick and easy deployment of ASPNET, Node.js and PHP web-sites to the Azure cloud. One of the most exciting developments was the ability to deploy to web-sites rapidly using “Git Publishing,” meaning if you are using Git you just need to add a new remote and do “git push azure” to deploy your code on demand.
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Git Aliases
Many git users may not be aware that you can setup git aliases for either providing shortcuts to existing commands (like typing ‘git co’ instead of ‘git checkout’) or even for creating entirely new commands (‘git hist’ for printing your git history formatted how you like it). Git aliases can be local to a single repository, or (more commonly) global.
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CI Deployments To IIS VIA MS Web Deploy 2.0
Now that I have my source code being checked into GitHub and have TeamCity doing automatic builds (and running tests), I thought it was about time to take the last big step and automatically deploy the latest version of an application to a live site (either for testing or just straight to production, it’s up to you) whenever a successful build has taken place.