Automatically Deploy an Azure Website from GitHub

The recent upgrade to Azure Websites included a service hook, to enable automatic deployments from GitHub.

To use it, go the ‘configure’ section of your website’s settings:

Copy the URL.

Go to the Admin -> Service Hooks section of your GitHub project, and paste the URL as a WebHook URL:

Now just push updates to your GitHub project, and they’ll automatically be deployed to Azure.

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Unsupported commands in SQL Azure

A useful list of commands that don’t work in SQL Azure

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee336253.aspx

I quite like the Windows Azure cost calculator on the Microsoft site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/