Version 8 on Azure

Hi Jürgen,

Version 8 should be available in gallery for Azure Web Sites by the end of May.

As for choosing between Azure Web Sites and Cloud Service, it mainly depends on if you want to have more control over your site or you want it to be easier to use. In case you prefer more control, I would suggest going for Cloud Service, in other case Web Sites.

More details about all diferrences between these two models can be found in Azure documentation - Azure Web Sites, Cloud Services and Virtual Machines comparison.

Hi Filip, many thanks for your answers. That means from your point of view it doesn't matter wether to use Kentico 8 on a Azure Web Site or a Cloud Service? You don't have any issues with one of the both kind of infrastructures? Thanks, Juergen

If you go with the Azure website approach, you will run into issues if you try using Azure Storage for the "external file system". It was able to create the container, but unable to write files inside it. I wasn't able to resolve it; but, I believe it is related to the directories where Kentico saves the temporary files - Azure websites don't have C:\ and the web.config override settings didn't seem to make a difference (setting it to a writable path).

No issues at all when using a Cloud Service.

Hi Shawn,

many thanks. Thats what I also have seen today. But it's not such a big issue for us, because we are able to import the files directly into the azure blob storage.

Kentico should use the default temp folder in App_Data to solve this problem. Hopefully in one of the next hotfixes...

Cheers Juergen

Hi there,

I was wondering if there is any update on the date that this might be available now that the end of May has been and gone. Is there a revised timeline?

Hello Mick,

There were some goals with a higher priority but our Azure team is already working on it and Kentico 8 should be available via Azure Web Sites in 3 weeks if everything will go according to the plan.

Best regards, Martin