Am in a similar position to you with the .NET APaaS (Application Platform as a Service) we have developed at http://EziAdmin.com. So far everything is being kept on a single server but am about to setup to deploy across domains etc - am getting some code on this later in the week (from a presentation conducted last week) about how to configure permissions for this with TFS. Yes, Azure doesn't support what you want. Amazon EC2 will be necessary to get msbuild running there.
Setting up deployable windows images for clients will be a step to be taken next year to take it to the CEAP (Cloud Enabled Application Platform) level. Happy to exchange ideas. Andrew ---------------------------------------- From: "Joseph Clark" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 9:32 AM To: "ozDotNet" <[email protected]> Subject: .NET friendly cloud-compute recommendations Howdy all, Does anyone have any experience with Windows/.NET friendly cloud-computing solutions, specifically for the purpose of farming out compilation and test agents? Internally we've semi-standardised on EC2 for all our java-based builds, but from the literature I've read on the tubes, setting up a Windows image doesn't sound like very much fun. I had a brief skim-read on the Azure platform, but it looks like it doesn't provide any bare-bones infrastructure like msbuild. Are there any other alternatives? Cheers, Joe.
