Deployment of ASP.NET vNext Application to Azure Cloud Services

Question

Is it possible to deploy an ASP.NET vNext web application to Azure Cloud Services? And if yes, does it matter if it's build on the aspnet50 or the aspnetcore50 framework? The Azure Cloud Service Visual Studio template, even in 2015 CTP seems to support only .NET Framework 4.x.

Answer 1

It's not supported yet but if you really want to you can do something like create a worker role setup script (which installs the kvm, kre etc.), then follow steps like this http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/331425/Running-an-EXE-in-a-WebRole-on-Windows-Azure to run it and bootstrap your aspnetcore50 app. It's not pretty or easy but it's the only way to run ASP.NET 5.0 stuff in a worker role at the moment.