How to deploy a signal R self host server on azure

Question

I am new to azure and I have an web app running on Azure web app and I have my signal-R self host as an console application. I want to deploy the signal r self host conbsole app to azure. What are the steps I need to take?

Answer 1

@esther fang,

please reference below tutorial, one thing need to be aware is, you will need to manually enable web socket for you site.

http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/deployment/using-signalr-with-azure-web-sites

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Deploying a SignalR Web App to Azure App Service

SignalR doesn't add any particular complications to deploying an application to Azure versus deploying to an on-premises server. An application that uses SignalR can be hosted in Azure without any changes in configuration or other settings (though for WebSockets support, see Enabling WebSockets on Azure App Service below.) For this tutorial, you'll deploy the application created in the Getting Started Tutorial to Azure.

Answer 2

You can host your console application on Azure as Web or Worker Role or even on a virtual machine managed by you. Here is a blog post comparing Azure Web and Worker Roles.

You can find the steps you have to take in order to set it up in the following answer:

Hosting console application on Azure or Amazon, is it possible?