Introducing Windows Azure- P62:The cloud platform is getting more and more attractive to the computing world. Today, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques are widely used in enterprise solutions. A question an IT management team or a software development team may ask is, what is the next trend going to be? Cloud computing seems to be the right answer. | CHAPTER 9 DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 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 303 CHAPTER 9 DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 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. Figure 9-8. Verify the available name for the application name 304 CHAPTER 9 DEPLOY APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE 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 .
