How to deploy an ASP.NET project to Azure with WebDeploy

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A little background (before I get downvoted to oblivion!)

I'm working on an intranet-hosted ASP.NET web application in a highly secure environment. At the moment it's deployed by building a package in Visual Studio, the zip file is copied onto the server and installed in IIS using WebDeploy (right-click -> Deploy -> Import Application).

What I'd like to do is deploy a sanitised version of this application to an Azure Web Site for demonstration purposes, however most of the standard Azure deployment methods do not apply to me because:

  • I work on a secure network so Visual Studio is blocked from connecting to Azure (rendering 95% of documentation irrelevant!)
  • installable software is strictly controlled on this network so I cannot install the Azure SDK needed to create Service Definitions, Configurations and Packages
  • The only machine I have access to which can connect to Azure is woefully underpowered and can only run puTTY, PowerShell and basic text editors.

At the moment, I have a Windows VM in Azure just running IIS and WebDeploy - this works but seems like overkill (and a good way to burn through my credit) when Web Apps in theory do everything I need.

What can I do?

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How about good old FTP deployment? Will that work for you? azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/…. – Gaurav Mantri
Also please see this thread if FTP is a viable option: stackoverflow.com/questions/22273360/…. – Gaurav Mantri

3 Answers

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Another option may be to checkin the WebDeploy package to a free subscription of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS = TFS in the cloud) and then create a deployment pipeline in VSTS using the new Release Management features.

https://www.visualstudio.com/features/release-management-vs.aspx

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in that case:

1) FTP from your machine using your own FTP client or i would recommend to use PSFTP from Putty package.

2) Still WebDeploy, but use that to generate the needed files, then you can use PowerShell like that.

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You can also use https://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ to connect to azure websites. It works with HTTP, only problem could be a corporate proxy.