The purpose of this paper is to present the deployment of Datacap Web Services (wTM) in the Azure Cloud in response to a customer requirement. The requirement was for Datacap Web Services to be implemented in Azure in a highly available manner, which was dynamically scalable in response to workload and system demand. This paper describes the implementation in a Proof-of-Concept environment in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, using cloud-native features including:
- Azure VM Scale Sets
allowing horizontal scaling of the Web Servers on demand, depending on the system load
- Azure SQL
for hosting the Datacap databases (Admin, Engine, Fingerprint)
- Azure Application Gateway
for balancing traffic to Datacap Web Servers, (IIS Servers)