Azure Friday

ScottHa talks to ScottGu about first principles of Azure. Where is Azure? How do the containers work? Where are they located? Where does the hardware stop and the software start?

ScottGu explains how Web Sites are load balanced, then they add Endpoint Monitoring to an existing site

Scott Guthrie tells Scott what SQL Databases in Azure can do, how backups work, what can be managed, exported, and moved to the cloud.

Scott Guthrie shows how to make an Azure Mobile Services and explains how Mobile Services differ from Web Sites and Virtual Machines.

There's an amazing debug console within your Azure Web Site that you can use for debugging, exploring, uploading files, as well as JSON endpoints for getting information about your environment. David hooks us up.

Scott and David use Azure Web Site deployment hooks plus the 3rd party Zapier service to send text messages after successfully deployments.

Scott and David connect to the log streaming services and watch Trace output from the command line.

David explains where Kudu and Web Site logs are kept, and how we can capture diagnostics trace information.

David and Scott setup a branching system to deploy their web site from a specific Git Branch.

Kudu can be extended to run Unit Tests and much more more using Custom Deployment Scripts. How far can David and Scott take it?