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Posted by Salvatore Allegra
Salvatore Allegra
4,140 Points

How do web interfaces such as azure, or cloud nine, or cpanel provision services, hosting, etc..?

Let's use Microsoft azure as an example. I click on a button to create a new virtual machine, how is this happening? Are they using ASP.NET to do this etc...? 3rd party api's? I know this question is vague, but the whole thing is like a black box to me. It would be interesting to see how this is done.

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codebyamir
codebyamir
12,108 Points
codebyamir
codebyamir
12,108 Points

Generally speaking, the button submits a request to the Azure portal web application for the VM creation. The web application is probably in .NET since it is a Microsoft service. The web app likely performs a number of actions including populating a database, talking to the Azure provisioning application, etc.

Salvatore Allegra
Salvatore Allegra
4,140 Points

Thanks for the input Amir.