Yavor is Co-founder and Head of Product at fusebit.io, a startup that makes in-product extensibility and integrations painless for SaaS developers. Previously at Auth0, Hulu, and Microsoft Azure.
13 December 2011
Following up on the announcements and demos shown at today’s Learn Windows Azure event, I decided to put together a very quick demo that gets you going on Azure with a real app as fast as possible.
I decided to modify express’ blog sample to use Azure storage, and also pre-configured all the service/role settings that Azure needs so you can get going as fast as possible.
Here is the 5-minute recipe:
npm install
Get-AzurePublishSettings
Import-AzurePublishSettings mine.publishsettings
Publish-AzureService -Name uniqueServiceName
You’re all done!
Unfortunately things don’t always go according to plan, so in case you get an Internal Server Error or anything else goes wrong after you deploy to the cloud, use this simple trick to debug.
<iisnode loggingEnabled="true" />
Publish-AzureService