[wix-devs] Deploying to the cloud

[John Cooper]

Interesting.  We boost bundles and NuGet packages to a private cloud.  I could see where a DSC could stream line some of my PowerShell in the Octopus workflow.

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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Heath Stewart
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I imagine he's referring to DSCs, but that WiX already produces MSIs and because of the Product DSC that ships with WMF 5.0 (which includes PowerShell, and is installed on Azure Windows VMs, and enabled by default when a VM is created via PowerShell) it's already possible today. You can use the, IIRC, Process DSC to install a bundle.

A package format and DSCs are orthogonal. One could argue that the existing DSCs are sub-par (I've been toying with the idea of writing a better one as part of my MSI cmdlets for PowerShell), but writing a DSC element only makes sense if you have a package format that it works with (like the two above today).

Heath Stewart
Visual Studio, Microsoft
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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:55 PM
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Can you be a bit more specific? Azure has a very large surface area.


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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Steven Ogilvie
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PowerShell scripts to Azure 

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Cool. Deployed how on MS Azure? Websites? Cloud Services? VMs?

Regards,

  Rob Mensching
  CEO
  FireGiant
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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Steven Ogilvie
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 9:02 AM
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A majority of our products will be installed to:

- On site premise (normal WiX installs)
- to MS Azure (Cloud)

>From my PM:

" ultimately 'the cloud' just means server machines connected to  the internet. in principle we could choose any of those, or host the machines ourselves, and we could change our minds and move from OEM supplier to another at any time.
in practice the XXXXXXXXX product/project is planning to use Azure"

Cheers,

Steve
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