Running a real business for free* on Azure services

Avbilder demo site built for the Glasspaper Learning Inspirasjonsdagene 2026 conference, showcasing how to run a real business for free* on Azure services.

This package rebuilds the Avbilder conference-demo infrastructure around the low-cost architecture:

• Azure Static Web Apps Free tier with managed Azure Function API for the customer-facing website
• Azure App Service Free tier for the separate admin portal
• Azure DNS authoritative for the domain
• one storage account for data tables and private preview blobs
• Azure Communication Services Email for registration and preview-ready messages
• Application Insights basic telemetry
• Key Vault for values that are appropriate to demonstrate as secrets
• optional Azure Automation Account for scheduled preview cleanup demos

In the future, it can be supplemented with:

• Microsoft Entra External ID for customer sign-up/sign-in
• linked backend Function App and deployed Container Apps

Repository split:

Avbilder/
├─ infra/       # Infrastructure: Bicep, setup/configuration scripts, runbooks
├─ site-user/   # Customer website: source and built static site output + SWA-managed .NET Functions API
└─ site-admin/  # Admin portal for registrations, users, calendar, and preview upload

Start with docs/README.md. The normal setup is split into base infrastructure (infra/scripts/deploy-infra.ps1) and post-infra service configuration (infra/scripts/configure-demo-services.ps1).

The infra/scripts folder contains only the normal entry-point scripts. One-off repair helpers live under infra/scripts/repair.

Core docs:

• docs/architecture.md
• docs/setup.md
• docs/operations.md
• docs/diagnostics.md
• docs/future-ideas.md