Azure Storage // Boris Wilhelms

Comparing Azure Static Web Apps and Azure CDN/Storage May 23, 2020 - 4 min read - Azure Static Web Apps Azure CDN Azure Storage

Recently Microsoft announced a new Azure service: Static Web Apps. This is a competitor service to Netlify, but it also might replace traditional static site hosting with Azure CDN and Azure Storage. But let’s begin with: What is Azure Static Web Apps? Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full-stack web apps to Azure from a GitHub repository. As this quote says, the service is not only for static sites, but also for static web apps.

Hosting a static site in Azure May 17, 2020 - 4 min read - Azure Storage Azure CDN

Hosting a static site in Microsoft Azure is quite easy. Since it is possible to use Azure Storage to host a static site an App Service is not needed for that. To also add a custom domain with a free and managed SSL certificate Azure CDN can be used. In this post I’ll show how to create those two services via the Azure CLI to host a static site. First we need to create a resource group, which holds the needed resource for the static site.

Build a photo gallery with Azure Functions Sep 14, 2017 - 4 min read - Azure Functions Azure Storage

With Azure Functions you can quickly build simple web applications. In this example you learn how to create a simple photo gallery with just three little functions. We will use Azure Blob Storage to store the files and Azure Table Storage to save metadata. You can find the example at GitHub. Creating thumbnails Since we do not want use the original picture as a thumbnail, we will create a function that creates proper thumbnails.