meteor-azure

Automate Meteor deployments on Azure App Service

Prerequisites

1. Meteor 1.4+
2. App Service on Basic plan or higher
3. Following General Settings:
   • Web sockets - On
   • ARR Affinity - On
4. Following App Settings:
   • SCM_COMMAND_IDLE_TIMEOUT - 7200
   • METEOR_AZURE_NODE_VERSION - Node version bundled with your current Meteor release
   • METEOR_AZURE_NPM_VERSION - NPM version bundled with your current Meteor release
   • ROOT_URL - http://{sitename}.azurewebsites.net or a custom domain you've set up
   • MONGO_URL - MongoDB connection string
   • MONGO_OPLOG_URL - Optional: Recommended with multiple instances
   • METEOR_SETTINGS - Optional: e.g from your settings.json
   • METEOR_AZURE_ROOT - Optional: Path to your .meteor directory IF it's nested (format as "foo\bar\")

Setup instructions

1. Copy the contents of the script directory into the top-level of your repository
2. Configure a deployment source in the Azure portal (detailed instructions)

Force HTTPS

Meteor's core force-ssl package is incompatible with our setup. You can achieve the same functionality with an extra rewrite rule in your web.config (see a full example here):

<!-- Force HTTPS -->
<rule name="Redirect to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="(.*)" />
  <conditions>
    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
  </conditions>
   <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

Note that with this approach ROOT_URL should be prefixed with 'https' (if not already)

Example

See the meteor-azure-example repo