Hosting Shibboleth SP in Azure Cloud Service web role

[Eric Kool-Brown]

Thanks Scott!

My blog's URL should be stable. I could certainly add the info to the Shib wiki. Where in the wiki do you think would be an appropriate location?

Your point about Azure assumptions is well taken. I've joined the legions of folks frustrated by the pace at which Microsoft technologies change, so that certainly needs to be noted as a caveat.

I thought about setup-time updating of the XML config files by means of SED or similar. XML entities might be another option. I haven't pursued dynamic updating because this work is a proof-of-concept, but it might be necessary for a robust production deployment.

    Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:42 AM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: Hosting Shibboleth SP in Azure Cloud Service web role

On 6/25/13 1:21 PM, "Eric Kool-Brown" <kool at uw.edu> wrote:

>I've gotten the Shibboleth SP installed and running on an Azure Cloud 
>Service web role. I've documented the process on my blog at 
>http://blogs.uw.edu/kool.

That's quite the effort, he said understatedly

Is the blog link "stable" enough to link to from our documentation in some way? Or is it better to turn the blog post into actual wiki material?

I don't know how stable the Azure assumptions you had to make are, so that might impact whether to try and make it stable docs.

BTW, there is a totally untested means of trying to parametrize the XML config files, namely XML entities. The code blocks use of an external DTD subset, but it's possible to use an internal subset to define entity replacements at the top of a file. That may make creating the substitutable content easier to plug in by just scripting the generation of that DTD and appending a customized XML file to that.

-- Scott


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