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makerofthings7
makerofthings7

Reputation: 61463

How can I migrate an Azure application to IIS?

I have a webrole I'd like to host in IIS for the time being.

Does anyone know how involved this is, considering that I still want Azure Storage functions of the IIS site to still work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1276

Answers (3)

orellabac
orellabac

Reputation: 2645

This answers seems misleading. Windows Azure is a platform that provides several services and you can choose from the services that you want to use. In essence a Windows Azure is just a Virtual Machine with *Windows Server 2008 R2 *IIS 7.5

So can if you have an application that you are currently hosting in Azure and you want to host it in IIS I don't see much of a problem there. If you are using Storage, the only problem might be that the Storage account settings were in the WebRole or Service configuration files, but you can change your app logic to take the appropiate settings from other config files. I have created Windows Desktop applications that for several reasons use Azure Storage and i also think of that as a great advantage of cloud computing.

Upvotes: 1

Shiraz Bhaiji
Shiraz Bhaiji

Reputation: 65391

If you want to move it to IIS then tijmedvdk's answer is correct.

If your goal is to run it in your data center then you should consider Azure Appliance http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/appliance/ this allows you to run Azure applications on premise, without making any changes.

Upvotes: 1

tijmenvdk
tijmenvdk

Reputation: 1758

Azure Storage (tables, blobs, queues) only run on the actual Windows Azure environment in the cloud. There is a simulated development environment that runs a facsimile on a local SQL Server database, but that is only meant for development purposes and cannot be used for running an actual site.

Theoretically, you could run your webapp locally and connect to Azure Storage over the internet (e.g. by using the REST api), but latency would almost certainly be too high for any interactive site.

So, if you want to be able to run your site on premise on your own IIS environment, you will need to remove all the specific Azure platform dependencies and build in non-Azure alternatives. For Azure Storage, you could either do a relational database (SQL Server, mySQL) or look at a nosql/document database.

Upvotes: 4

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