Manually create Windows Azure .cspkg and the .cscfg files on Mac/Linux

Question

I'm planning on moving my node.js application over to be a Windows Azure Cloud Service. However unlike Azure Websites there is no git integration, and one must upload a ZIP containing both a .cspkg and .cscfg file.

For developers using Windows machines to deploy, they have cspack.exe to create these files, however *nix users seem to have nothing - and more importantly no documentation on WHAT these files should actually contain/look like.

I'm assuming there is no tool for *nix, however can someone perhaps point me in the direction of the specification for these files - or a tutorial where someone has created them manually?

Update: To clarify, I'm doing node.js development.

Update 2: I've just found this project, that can be used in conjunction with the node SDK

Many thanks,

Answer 1

After much searching, I've finally found out that the fabulous people at Cloud9 have all the tools you could possibly need on their GitHub account.

• azure-cmdlet-node
• azure-packager-node
• azure-node-basepackage
• azure-management-sdk-for-node