Solution architecture: Dev-test deployment for testing PaaS solutions
This architecture represents how to configure your infrastructure for development and testing of a standard PaaS-style system.
This solution is built on the Azure-managed services: Visual Studio Team Services, SQL Database, Redis Cache and Application Insights. These services run in a high-availability environment that is patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.
Implementation guidance
| Products | Documentation | |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio Team Services | Visual Studio Team Services manage the development process. | |
| Microsoft Release Management | The Microsoft Release Management build and release agents deploy the Azure Resource Manager template and associated code to various environments. | |
| Resource groups | Visual Studio Team Services resource groups are used to define all of the services required to deploy the solution into a dev-test or production environment. | |
| Web Apps | A web app runs the website and is deployed to all environments. Staging slots are used to swap pre-production and production versions. | |
| SQL Database | Azure SQL Database maintains data for the website. Copies are deployed in dev, test and production environments. | |
| Redis Cache | Redis Cache is used in each environment to improve performance of the website. | |
| Application Insights | Application Insights monitors the web application during development and test runs, then monitors the full production system when it's released. |
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