Migration of On-Prem to Azure

Question

I have a web application that is running on my localhost and i want to use azure app service or azure vm to launch it online. which is the best choice?

Solution to host webapplication

Answer 1

There are ways to deploy your application to Azure Cloud.

Method 1 : Azure App Service is fully managed platform for deploying application and scaling apps. it has built-in web hosting feature and supports multiple languages and frameworks.

Please follow the steps to deploy application to App Service .

1.Create sample web application using Visual Studio application.

2. Create a new project

3. Right click on created application and choose Publish

Note: Before publish application to Azure, login to visual studio with Azure Account.

5. Select target- Azure Cloud.

5.Select target platform windows or Linux .

6. Click on App Service (Windows) > Create new (window) " in App Service (Windows) >Create new.

7. Select your subscription, resource group & hosting plan .

8. Check the Application deployment status in visual studio account.

9.Test the application with Azure App service URL once deploy the application to Azure app service.

Go to Azure Portal > Azure App Service > overview > Url .

10. Application working with App service Url

Method 2: Azure VM

To deploy an application in an Azure VM with IIS , you can follow below steps:

1. Create an Azure VM with required configuration such as the operating system and size.

Azure Portal > Create > Select Server OS.

2.Use RDP to connect to the Azure VM.

3. You can use FTP to upload your code to the Azure VM .

4. Now, open the IIS Manager and create a new website in that IIS .

5. After that, you can configure the website to point to the location of your application code on the VM .

6. Finally, test your application.