Deploying to object storage

In this section, we'll be deploying our Svelte application to an object storage service. We'll be using Microsoft Azure—and, specifically, Azure Storage—for hosting the application, and Azure CDN for serving it globally.

The architecture looks like this:


Figure 6.1 – Architecture diagram for the application

Creating an Azure account

If you don't have one already, you need to create an Azure account at https://azure.com/free.

You can create an Azure account by signing in using a Microsoft account (formerly known as a Windows Live ID) or a GitHub account.

Creating an account is free and should take just a few minutes. You will also be enrolled in a trial period with a certain amount of free credits that you can use within the first month. Additionally, for the first year, you can enjoy certain services for free: as of the time of writing, this includes 5 GB of storage in Azure...