How to deploy django web application on Microsoft Azure cloud services - python

I have a existing django web application currently deployed on aws. I want to deploy it on Microsoft Azure by using cloud services. How to create config files for deploying web app on Azure? How to access environment variables on Azure? I am not using Visual Studio. I am developing web app in linux env and using git for code management. Please help

It sounds like you want to know which way is the best choice for deploying a django app via Git for code management on Linux, using Cloud Services or App Services on Azure.
Per my experience, I think deploying a pure web app into App Service on Azure via Git on Linux is the simplest way for you. You can refer to the offical docuemnts below to know how to do it via Azure CLI or only Git.
Deploy your first Python web app to Azure in five minutes
Local Git Deployment to Azure App Service
And there is a code sample of Django on App Service as reference that you can know how to configure it for running on Azure.
However, if your app need more powerful features & performance, using Cloud Services for your django app is also a better way than using VM directly. Also as references, please view the document Python web and worker roles with Python Tools for Visual Studio to know how to let Azure support Python & Django on Cloud Services, and you can create & deploy it via Azure portal in the browser on Linux. Meanwhile, thanks for the third party GitHub sample of Django WebRole for Cloud Service which you can refer to know how to create a cloud service project structure without PTVS for VS on Linux.
Hope it helps.

I read this post, decided the how-to guides Peter Pan posted looked good, and set off on my own. With my one business day's worth of experience if you are looking to deploy your app to Azure, start with the Marketplace Django app and go from there. Reason being the virtual environment comes with it along with the activate script needed to run the virtual environment and the web.config is setup for you. If you follow the start from scratch how-to guides, these are the hardest parts to setup correctly. Once you create the app service from the template, do a git clone of the repo to your local machine. Make a small change and push it back up by running the command below in bash.
az webapp deployment source config-local-git --name <app name> --resource-group <group name> --query url --output tsv
Use the result of the command to add the git repo as a remote source.
git remote add azure https://<ftp_credential>#<app_name>.scm.azurewebsites.net/<app_name>.git
Finally, commit your changes and deploy
git add -A
git commit -m "Test change"
git push azure remote
A couple of side notes
If you do not have your bash environment setup, you'll need to do so to use the az commands. The marketplace app does run error-free locally. I have not dug into this yet.
Good luck!

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I am working on a Flask application and I need to deploy it on Azure.
I am totally new to Azure and I have built a project using Python Flask and HTML. In the application, I have one main Flask app and two HTML pages. I need to deploy the whole project to an Azure app service.
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File version different between Azure Portal and Azure Portal Kudu for the same file

Currently my Azure Function shows a different file version in the portal as compared to Kudu.
I am using Azure App Service /w Azure Functions V2 and Python 3.7.
I publish my function app using:
func azure functionapp publish <functionappname>
It successfully performs a remote build.
Now if I look at my Function App in the portal I can see the updated version of my init.py. However, when I use Kudu (Platform features > Advanced tools (Kudu)) to look into the file /home/site/wwwroot//init.py I still see the old version. Shouldn't these versions be identical?
I hope some experienced user can shed light on this.
I test it in my side, when I create a new azure function app(python) and deploy the python code from VS Code to azure portal. It will not create a "init.py" under the directory /home/site/wwwroot. In this directory, it just exists a "host.json"(shown as below).
So you can see the new version of your "init.py" after your deployment on azure portal, but it seems the old version "init.py" in the directory /home/site/wwwroot may be created by a deployment in the past or created because some other reasons in the past. I think it has nothing to do with your new deployment.

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App directory doesn't show up on google cloud shell

Probably a stupid question.
I'm new to google app engine. So I followed the tutorial and successfully deployed their HelloWorld app, where the final steps are done on the cloud shell.
Then I built my own app in flask on my local machine, tested it (pushed the repo to the project's cloud repo) and deployed it from the command line (gcloud app deploy) and it works fine, anyone can use the app on their browser and I can also see the source code in the console website.
But I don't see any directories when I use the cloud shell. I get the prompt username#project-id:~$ but when I ls, there's just one README file and no other directories, therefore I can't use the devapp_sever.py, gcloud app deploy or any other shell function on this project.
But when I choose the hello world project that was created initially, the shell shows an src directory which contains the app's code and I can use the shell and deploy the app from there.
What's happening here and what am I supposed to do.?
Think of your Cloud Shell as just another workstation with local disk similar to your local machine. To deploy code to an app engine app, Google will create a Cloud Source Repository. Having said that, this is not related to your Cloud Shell. You can of course git clone any Git repo into your Cloud Shell.
Dan also wrote a nice explanation here -
https://stackoverflow.com/a/42123320/7947020
Hope this clarifies it!

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