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, Azure SQL Database, Redis Cache and Application Insights. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.

Implementation guidance

	Products/Description	Documentation
Visual Studio Team Services	Visual Studio Team Services manage the development process.	Set up Visual Studio Team Services
Microsoft Release Management	The Microsoft Release Management build and release agents deploy the Azure Resource Manager template and associated code to the various environments.	Configure Microsoft Release Management agents
Resource Groups	Visual Studio Team Services resource groups are used to define all the services required to deploy the solution into a dev-test or production environment.	Deploy using Azure Resource Groups
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.	Deploy an ASP.NET web app to Azure App Service, using Visual Studio
Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL Database maintains data for the website. Copies are deployed in the dev, test and production environments.	SQL Database tutorial: Create a SQL database in minutes by using the Azure portal
Redis Cache	Redis Cache is used in each environment to improve performance of the website.	How to create a web app with Redis Cache
Application Insights	Application Insights monitors the web application during development and test runs and then monitors the full production system when it is released.	Set up Application Insights for ASP.NET