Windows 10: Deploy Individual Static Content Files to Azure App Services via FTP Task in Azure Pipelines

HILLARYHOOVER · May 29, 2020

I've just upgraded a Classic ASP website to an ASP.NET Core MVC Razor Page framework. I do not have a CMS system and all of my static content files .xml, PDFs, and images are contained in my website project. To deploy my static content files, I'm using FTP tasks within Azure pipelines that are based on directory. When my release pipelines run, they delete all of the content within the designated content directory on my app service and then re-copy all of the content that was in the directory associated with the deployment. With Classic ASP, I was able to use Web Deploy to publish individual files to my on prem servers, however, Web Deploy is no longer an option due to security issues with publishing from on prem to the cloud. I'd like to deploy individual content files, instead of an entire content directory within my release pipelines. The ability to deploy deltas would be an added bonus. Is there a script or other functionality available that would allow me to deploy individual static content files to my app services? Please note I'm not able to edit the files directly within the Kudu console, due to audit standards.

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Brink · May 29, 2020

Announcing Azure Stack preview of Azure PaaS services and DevOps tools

We recently made the first Technical Preview of Azure Stack available for download. Hopefully many of you were able to deploy it successfully. Keep us posted on your experiences!

Today, we’re making additional Azure PaaS services and DevOps tools available for you to deploy and run on top of your Technical Preview deployments. This represents the first installment of continuous innovation towards helping you deliver Azure services from your datacenter.

Specifically, we’re making the following services and tools available for download today:

Web Apps feature in Azure App Service

SQL and MySQL database resource providers (to support Web Apps data tier)

Updated Azure SDK, including PowerShell support and cross-platform CLI support

Native Visual Studio support for Azure Stack

Please note, Web Apps and SQL/MySQL PaaS services are in early preview today. We’re making them available early to solicit community and early adopter feedback to help simplify the installation and configuration experience. We will then incorporate the feedback and release another public preview for these services before we release the next Technical Preview of Azure Stack.

Check out our technical documentation to guide your deployment efforts and visit the Azure Stack forum for help or want provide feedback. One specific topic we’d love your feedback on is which Azure services you'd like to see come down to Azure Stack.

If you're an IT professional, you might find this on Microsoft Mechanics very informative too. Lastly, Mark Russinovich and Jeffrey Snover recently hosted a webcast on Azure Stack. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Video: Introducing Microsoft Azure Stack Channel 9
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Source: Announcing early preview of Azure PaaS services and DevOps tools for Azure Stack | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Brink · May 29, 2020

Announcing the availability of Azure App Service

In a mobile-first, cloud-first world, companies are using apps to connect with and better engage their customers, partners, and employees anywhere, and on any device. They are relying on developers to build those apps with increasing speed –that can connect to popular services and on-premises systems and autoscale as the business needs. Today, I’m excited to announce Azure App Service, a unique new service which helps developers deliver cross-platform, cloud-connected apps faster than ever before.

App Service is a one-of-a-kind cloud service which allows developers to easily build employee, partner and customer-facing apps for any platform or device. This solution integrates the Microsoft Azure Websites, Mobile Services and Biztalk Services into a single service with a common app hosting, runtime and extensibility model, enabling simplified integration with popular consumer and commercial services and on-premises systems, all for one low price.

Azure App Service provides developers with everything they need to build:

Web Apps – Web Apps, formerly Azure Websites, provide a robust set of Web app capabilities including support for the most popular Web development frameworks, such as .NET, Java, PHP, Python and more, and full DevOps support through continuous integration with Visual Studio Online, GitHub, Bitbucket and more. Web Apps enable enterprises to connect with existing apps and services on-premises through hybrid connectivity and AD integration while ensuring compliance, auditing and data retention requirements are met.

Mobile Apps – Mobile Apps provides a rich set of backend capabilities for native Windows, iOS and Android mobile platforms as well as multi-platform environments like Xamarin and Cordova. Mobile apps make it easy to engage users with push notifications, authentication with popular identity providers including Active Directory, and store cloud data including offline sync.

Logic Apps - Our new Logic Apps offering allows any technical user or developer the ability to automate process execution across popular consumer and commercial services as well as custom APIs on-premises to help solve even tricky integration scenarios with ease. Logic Apps also include our advanced set of Azure BizTalk service capabilities for even the most advanced enterprise integration scenarios.

API Apps – also new, API Apps provide developers the ability to discover, host, and manage APIs including built-in support for enterprise systems such as SAP, Siebel and Oracle and popular services such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Dynamics CRM Online, Office 365 and many others. With API Apps, developers can select from a rich library of existing APIs as well as create their own APIs easily for private or public use.

App Service builds on Microsoft Azure’s open, easy to use services, to let developers build apps for any device, and any platform, in a simple, integrated developer experience using their language and tools of choice.
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Source: Announcing the availability of Azure App Service - The Official Microsoft Blog

Brink · May 29, 2020

Announcing the availability of Azure App Service

In a mobile-first, cloud-first world, companies are using apps to connect with and better engage their customers, partners, and employees anywhere, and on any device. They are relying on developers to build those apps with increasing speed –that can connect to popular services and on-premises systems and autoscale as the business needs. Today, I’m excited to announce Azure App Service, a unique new service which helps developers deliver cross-platform, cloud-connected apps faster than ever before.

App Service is a one-of-a-kind cloud service which allows developers to easily build employee, partner and customer-facing apps for any platform or device. This solution integrates the Microsoft Azure Websites, Mobile Services and Biztalk Services into a single service with a common app hosting, runtime and extensibility model, enabling simplified integration with popular consumer and commercial services and on-premises systems, all for one low price.

Azure App Service provides developers with everything they need to build:

Web Apps – Web Apps, formerly Azure Websites, provide a robust set of Web app capabilities including support for the most popular Web development frameworks, such as .NET, Java, PHP, Python and more, and full DevOps support through continuous integration with Visual Studio Online, GitHub, Bitbucket and more. Web Apps enable enterprises to connect with existing apps and services on-premises through hybrid connectivity and AD integration while ensuring compliance, auditing and data retention requirements are met.

Mobile Apps – Mobile Apps provides a rich set of backend capabilities for native Windows, iOS and Android mobile platforms as well as multi-platform environments like Xamarin and Cordova. Mobile apps make it easy to engage users with push notifications, authentication with popular identity providers including Active Directory, and store cloud data including offline sync.

Logic Apps - Our new Logic Apps offering allows any technical user or developer the ability to automate process execution across popular consumer and commercial services as well as custom APIs on-premises to help solve even tricky integration scenarios with ease. Logic Apps also include our advanced set of Azure BizTalk service capabilities for even the most advanced enterprise integration scenarios.

API Apps – also new, API Apps provide developers the ability to discover, host, and manage APIs including built-in support for enterprise systems such as SAP, Siebel and Oracle and popular services such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Dynamics CRM Online, Office 365 and many others. With API Apps, developers can select from a rich library of existing APIs as well as create their own APIs easily for private or public use.

App Service builds on Microsoft Azure’s open, easy to use services, to let developers build apps for any device, and any platform, in a simple, integrated developer experience using their language and tools of choice.
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Source: Announcing the availability of Azure App Service - The Official Microsoft Blog

Windows 10: Deploy Individual Static Content Files to Azure App Services via FTP Task in Azure Pipelines

Deploy Individual Static Content Files to Azure App Services via FTP Task in Azure Pipelines

Deploy Individual Static Content Files to Azure App Services via FTP Task in Azure Pipelines

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