Building your Ubuntu PHP development box on Azure using Vagrant

With Azure you can easily create and use a development environment in the Cloud. You can create a Virtual Machine from the Management Portal or from the command line, but if you want more automation, you can use a tool like Vagrant to automatically start and configure your Virtual Machine so that it is ready to use, instead of following manual installation steps to configure your environment.

Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster on Windows Azure

Install MariaDB Galera Cluster and create a VM Image

Deploying Cloudera on Windows Azure Virtual Machines using Cloudera Manager

Introduction

Advanced Cookie-based session affinity with Application Request Routing

As you probably know, the Windows Azure Platform has a built-in load-balancing service that you can typically use to create “farms” of Web servers for high availability and performance scale-out. You can find some detailed information on how to set this up in the Windows Azure documentation, like this article: Load Balancing Virtual Machines.

How to interact with Windows Azure Blob Storage from Linux using Python

We have many Windows Azure SDKs that you can use on Linux to access Windows Azure Blob Storage and upload or download files, all hosted on GitHub. For example, you could write scripts in Python or Node.JS to upload files to Blob storage.