Your Azure Environment

Upon completing your onboarding, an invitation link will be sent to your email to finalize the setup of your Azure environment which includes access to Azure Portal, Cloudvanti Sitefinity Management Portal in Azure DevOps, and Fastly CDN.

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Fastly CDN

The Fastly CDN is used as the network infrastructure, which accelerates website performance and provides you with numerous benefits. For more details on Fastly CDN, you may refer to Key Features: CDN.

Azure Resource Group

Here are the resources you can access via the Azure Portal:

  • Staging Environment, the environment for testing features before being published.
    • Azure App Service, to host Staging websites, connected to Fastly CDN and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Azure SQL Database, stores database of Staging websites with CI/CD pipeline for backup and restores.
    • Azure Search, improve the experience of the website's search feature.
    • Application Insight, to monitor and store logs from the websites.
  • Production Environment, the environment for live websites, where public users access it.
    • 2 Web App inside Azure App Service, to configure your websites that are already connected to Fastly CDN and CI/CD pipeline into the deployment slot for load balancing and minimize downtime when deployed.
    • Azure SQL Database, as a backup for or to restore the Production Database with CI/CD pipeline.
    • Azure Search, to improve the experience of the website's search feature.
    • Azure Redis Cache, to improve your website performance by caching data on the server-side.
    • Application Insight, to monitor and store logs from the websites.
  • Azure Storage, storing the backup database file.
  • Log Analytics Workspace, a repository of all recent logs from Web Application, CDN, etc.

For more details on the resources, please visit the Hosting Plan.

Cloudvanti Management Portal

Here are the features of the Cloudvanti Management Portal:

  • 2 Azure Repository
    • <subscription-name>-DB, for database repository
    • <subscription-name>, for source code repository
  • Application metrics dashboard
  • Deployment Status
  • Wiki
  • CI/CD Pipeline

For more information about Azure DevOps, you may refer to Sitefinity Management Portal.