Category: Project 4: App Deployment Using Platform as a Service

This is step 6 of 6 of Hands-On Project 4 for Azure. In this step, we look briefly at how to remedy a few common deployment problems, and how you can obtain information you can use to determine the cause of production problems. Back to Project Problems Deploying from Visual…

This is step 5 of 6 of Hands-On Project 4 for Azure. In this step, you do final configuration of the Azure AppService web server and the application, then deploy the application. Back to Project Update Django ALLOWED_HOSTS The Django web framework requires that we identify the host names from…

This is step 4 of 6 of Hands-On Project 4 for Azure. In this step, you install updated application code on your cloud PC, then build and initialize the production database for the e-commerce demo application. Back to Project Approach To complete this step, we will use the same approach…

This is step 3 of 6 of Hands-On Project 4 for Azure. In this step, you provision an Azure AppService web server and connect it to your production VNet. Back to Project Create an AppService Web Server From the portal, navigate to the App Services service and click on Create.…

This is step 2 of 6 of Hands-On Project 4 for Azure. In this step, you provision a MySQL PaaS database server and connect your cloud PC to it using virtual network peering. Back to Project Overview This is a critical step in the project, because not only do we…

This is step 1 of 6 of Hands-On Project 4 for Azure. In this step, you create a virtual network (VNet) that is suitable to connect your production PaaS resources. Back to Project Planning In order to create a virtual network that will meet our requirements (and not require rework…

This is step 5 of 5 of Hands-On Project 4 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, we look briefly at how to obtain log files you can use to determine the cause of production problems. Back to Project View Elastic Beanstalk Logs The first level of troubleshooting you can…

This is step 4 of 5 of Hands-On Project 4 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you do final configuration of the Elastic Beanstalk environment, then deploy the application. Back to Project Configure Environment Variables The configuration files in our Django application use the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to determine…

This is step 3 of 5 of Hands-On Project 4 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you make final changes to the Django application configuration to allow it to be deployed successfully to Elastic Beanstalk. Back to Project Add a Procfile Within Elastic Beanstalk, a Procfile directs the Elastic…

This is step 2 of 5 of Hands-On Project 4 for Amazon Web Services. In this step, you install updated application code on your cloud PC, then build and initialize the production database for the e-commerce demo application. Back to Project Approach To complete this step, we will use the…