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Automating Windows Azure with Windows Azure CLI
Recently, Microsoft Windows Azure team has announced the release of azure-cli 0.6.10 which can be used for automating Windows Azure in an easy and elegant manner. The azure-cli is a Node.js based cross platform command line tool for Windows Azure, which can be used for managing and deploying Windows Azure Websites, Windows Azure Storage, Mobile Services, Virtual Machines, Service Bus from command prompt on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Building and Deploying Windows Azure Web Site with Node.js and MongoDB by using Microsoft WebMatrix
In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to build a web app with Node.js and MongoDB, and will deploy it on Windows Azure as a Windows Azure Web Site. Firstly, I will create a web site with Node.js, Express.js, Mongoose and MongoDB. Then I will create a MongoDB database on MongoLab, which is a MongoDB as a service hosted on Cloud, and finally deploy the web app to Windows Azure Web Site. The source code for the demo app is available on Github at https://github.com/shijuvar/NodeExpressMongo