ANODE is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) for developing and hosting node.js WEB applications on Azure.

ANODE is available as a free open source in github. You can clone all ANODE code and have full control over the platform. The steps below guide you in creating your own ANODE deployment.

In a nutshell, ANODE offers the following features:

• Multitenancy - ANODE hosts multiple versions of multiple applications from git repositories and branches, side-by-side.
• Instantaneous deployment - push into git leads to immediate service update in the cloud. ANODE is integrated with github (and bitbucket), supports and leverages github development process.
• Security - ANODE wraps all security handling and exposes HTTPS endpoint. ANODE applications are HTTP servers, agnostic of security.
• Instantaneous logging - ANODE offers instant viewing and querying logs from applications.
• Management dashboard - all management is performed via ANODE's management dashboard. The dashboard is extendable and can be used for managing applications.
• Scale out - ANODE symmetrically deploys applications on Azure instances. Scaleout is opaque to applications.
• Interoperability - ANODE allows applications to collaborate with each other. ANODE itself is implemented as a number of node.js applications.
• Services - there are multiple services offered by ANODE, e.g. scheduling delayed jobs.
• Testing - ANODE supports test suites development and execution.

• ANODE farm - Azure cloud service with one production deployment of ANODE role running on several instances.
• Instance - Azure instance (aka VM). We use "Small" sized instances.
• ANODE cluster - Set of several ANODE farms sharing common storage account.

You need Git to be installed on your development computer. Follow the these steps if you don't have Git yet.

• The 1st phase - setup basic functional ANODE farm
• The 2nd phase - secure the farm
• The 3rd phase - start deploying applications
• The 4th phase - setup development environment
• Troubleshooting