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Microsoft Azure for Spoiled People

Jen Looper on May 21, 2019

I'm spoiled by great software. Really spoiled, because I've had the luxury of choosing my favorite platforms and deploying to them in my role as a ...
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Raymond Camden

I noticed in the log output that it says it defaulted Node to 0.10.40. Obviously (I'm assuming anyway) you can fix that and specify a Node version, but why would Azure default to such an old version of Node?

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Jen Looper

You can definitely fix it by specifying the Node version in your package.json ("engines": {"node": "10.0"},) as the log suggests. But this is the very low default for App Service simply because upgrading is not so easy for big orgs.

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Preston Jones • Edited

When I go to create the web app in Azure I'm unable to select Windows for the OS when I select Node for the runtime. Any ideas?
Azure Settings

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Jen Looper

Hi, Preston, I think this might have to do with the Service Plan (or maybe Resource Group or Subscription) that you selected. Start there, and make sure that that plan supports Windows. As you work through the setup, you'll see that each setup step depends on the prior subscription. This caught me out as well.

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John Pham

Hey Jen, great post!

You mentioned getting Netlify—like CD on Azure but we're still uploading a built version of the app to the repo? Will you be addressing how to avoid doing that in your future posts?

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Jen Looper

yes, for sure. That's an optimization step. There's a way to do it, I need to test it and then explain it. For sure, it's no bueno to upload all that stuff!

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Tiago de Noronha

Nice! Might have inspired me to show people how easy it is to setup pipelines, since you went with Kudu! :)

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Jen Looper

That's one of the many things on my list. Learning as I go here! :)

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Shaiju T

Hi Jen, I am a developer. Is there any use to get certified in both AWS and Azure. ? In a workplace anyway I will use any one cloud computing provider ?

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Ben Halpern

Really fabulous premise for this post, loved it!

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Jen Looper

Thank you Ben!!

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Raymond Camden

FYI, typo (and feel free to delete this comment when done :)

"Once you have the [Vue CLI installed"

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Jen Looper

got it, thanks!

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Karolis

wow, so much work just to launch a simple website :)

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Jen Looper

I know, but you get a lot of bang for the buck, going forward! Stay tuned!