Deploy ASP.NET applications to Azure Web Sites

Henrik Andersson's blog post from October 2014 details the process of deploying an ASP.NET MVC application to Azure Web Apps using Octopus Deploy 3.0, which at the time had recently added support for Azure Web Apps. Due to the absence of out-of-the-box functionality for deploying Azure Web Sites directly from Octopus, a step template involving a PowerShell script and Web Deploy is utilized. The post guides readers through setting up a demo ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2013, creating a NuGet package with OctoPack, and modifying project files to automate package generation. It further explains setting up an Azure Web Site, importing a Web Deploy step template into Octopus, and configuring project variables and deployment processes. The blog post concludes with instructions on creating and deploying a release to Azure, as well as updating and redeploying the application with modifications.