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mortb
mortb

Reputation: 9839

Host legacy WCF services in Azure

Does anyone know what the options are for hosting legacy .NET4+ WCF services in Azure? I have heard that App Services are not to be used, but I have trouble finding any sources.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1745

Answers (2)

Lan Huang
Lan Huang

Reputation: 806

The basic areas to consider when migrating an existing .NET application to Azure are:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/migration/choose

  • Compute choices
  • Database choices
  • Networking and security considerations
  • Authentication and authorization considerations

To host a WCF service in Azure, you can check out the following tutorials.
Expose an on-premises WCF service to a web application in the cloud by using Azure Relay
Deploying an existing WCF service to Azure

Upvotes: 2

Thiago Custodio
Thiago Custodio

Reputation: 18387

You can host your WCF services in multiple ways

  • on IIS

  • as Windows Service

  • as Console App

For the windows Service / Console App, you can:

  • Setup a VM and also install it

For the other options:

You can deploy on App Service or also on a VM with IIS installed.

More info:

https://aspdotnetcodehelp.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/hosting-wcf-in-azure-app-service/

Upvotes: 1

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