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Azure, DevOps

Migrating your applications to Azure using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Packer and Virtual Machine extensions – Part 3

This is a continuation of the previous post about migrating your not ready cloud application to the Azure cloud. The last post discussed about creating a managed image to be able to be used by a virtual machine scale set for provisioning. What will we do in this series I decided to do a series of posts about this topic as it touches a variety of aspects. I will use a concrete example that may or may not have happened to you and I plan to cover Building a managed image from an Ubuntu image as base, and setting up a web server (Tomcat for instance) to host an application Creating a Virtual Machine Scale Set using ARM templates Adding…

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February 18, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment
Azure

Migrating your applications to Azure using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Packer and Virtual Machine extensions – Part 1

So you are ready to move your application to Azure but it is not fully optimized for the cloud. You looked into App Services (web apps), but to be able to really get the best of them, it would need some definitive improvements in the code. You go back to your team and management and propose them a lift and shift that would make everyone happy. You then plan your improvements in your timeline and estimates. How can you effectively lift and shift your application so that it can be highly available (within one region) and scalable? In this series of posts, I will show you how you can package your application in an image and have it ready for…

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February 16, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments