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at-fates-hands
I actually use VS and TFS with Azure when I'm working on my .Net projects and it works great.

I've been looking for something like this when I'm not working in VS and doing non .Net work. Thanks for posting this.

NicoJuicy
No problem, i already use git for pushing to Azure and tfs online.. So publishing to my own server meant that i needed to configure web deploy Every time.

So thats going to chance soon ;-)

flaviotsf
At work we use a combination of git + Jenkins and a simple xcopy on build succeed. Does a great job, plus it can do Slack events, email notifications, etc.
vertex-four
I was looking at using Azure for a project that I'd likely be writing in F#. As I run Linux on my desktop, I'd've liked to be able to manage my Azure services from it. As it turns out, the tools for doing so don't exist for Linux; the various cross-platform tools only manage certain parts of Azure, missing out other important parts (such as "Cloud Services", their PaaS).

As it turned out, I decided to use node.js on Linux on EC2 instead, as I know that works fine.

EDIT: Apparently, all the information needed to do this is now public, it's just not exposed in any tools. You need to create a cspkg[0] file and a cscfg[1] file, then use the Create Deployment endpoint[2] to upload them along with extension information.

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj151532.aspx [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee758710.aspx [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460813.aspx

blablabla123
>As it turned out, I decided to use node.js on Linux on EC2 instead, as I know that works fine.

Deploying node.js using Linux (or OS X) is actually pretty convenient using Azure Websites. Even though Azure Websites is limited to 10 instances, but until you get 10 instances busy with node.js.....

However I agree, the documentation is horrible. When working with the node drivers for Azure Storage Tables, most of the time I use the source code as doc, fortunately it's well commented.

vertex-four
Yeah, I was specifically wanting to use Cloud Services as I have a requirement for long-running background processor nodes, and Cloud Services allows for the creation of those while Websites doesn't.
mskierkowski
Have a look at https://factor.io, it is also a deployment engine which can deploy from Github, Bitbucket, etc to your servers (e.g. SCP). It's also much easier to setup. Additionally you can add an intermediate build step with static gen frameworks like Middleman.
jongalloway2
Kudu is insanely powerful. There's a browser-based console (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Kudu-console) where you can run git operations, copy files, npm, etc. It supports deployment and web hooks. The new feature is Azure Site Extensions (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Azure-Site-Extensio...).

Kudu is automatically set up for any Azure Web Site (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Accessing-the-kudu-...). If your web site has URL http://mysite.azurewebsites.net/ , then the root URL of the Kudu service is https://mysite.scm.azurewebsites.net/.

Here's a 10 minute video with Scott Hanselman and David Ebbo that shows it off pretty well: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/azure-friday/exploring-the-su...