发布到其他人的Azure订阅？

Question

I have a web application that currently runs on Azure under my own Azure subscription. I'd like to transfer this to another party so that they can run the web application under their subscription. How can I do this?

Can I:

1. Give them some sort of package that they can publish (ideally I'd like to avoid giving them the actual source code), or
2. get connection details from them so that I can publish directly from Visual Studio to their subscription (said connection details would have to not give me full control over their subscription)?

Note that the web application consists of a website, an Azure SQL database, and a Blob container.

Answer 1

The best method would be for them to provide you the publish profile that they can download from the Azure web application dashboard.

This provides you a file you can import into your project that will publish to that Azure subscription. The information contained in the publish settings file is a unique userId and password to that web application only (you can open the file with Notepad and read its contents).

If you need to interact with the database directly, you will need the SQL username and password as well as they would need to open the SQL Azure firewall to allow your IP address to connect to it.

Interacting with the blob container could be done using the Blob APIs (or some of the various GUI tools out there) and a key with the proper read/write accesses attached to it.

Answer 2

Azure now has the Resource Manager API (ARM). One of the features: Resource Groups. A resource group serves as a bounding box for a set of resources (web apps, VMs, etc.). You can grant permissions on a resource group, allowing someone external to your subscription/organization to work within that resource group. With owner permission, they'd be able to create new resources within that group, and never be able to see anything beyond the resource group.