Microsoft’s Azure Websites is a great cloud platform to host your Drupal Websites. Azure Website offers secure, reliable, and scalable environment for your websites and already hosts over 250,000 Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and other OSS based websites.
Microsoft Azure Websites is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) for hosting Websites. The platform offers a quick, easy, and cost competitive way to create, deploy and manage web applications while removing the need to manage or even think about the underlying infrastructure. Allowing you to focus on your application, not your servers. Among other thing, Azure Websites includes capabilities such as, Backup and Restore, Staging Slots, High Availability and AutoScale.
But once you have hosted your site, you must wonder how do I manage my Drupal website? What tools can I use? Will my existing tools work?
In this session we will answer all these questions and help you understand how Azure websites makes it easy to perform all your DevOps tasks from deployment to management of your website. Some of the topics we will cover is:
• Automated Deployment for Drupal
• Using Drush on Azure Websites
• Using Drupal Shell Scripts
• Using Azure Web Jobs for Drupal Cron Jobs
• Setting up CI from Travis and Jenkins