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View ArticleDeploying a CKAN VM Depot Linux image on Windows Azure via Web portal
In this video we show you how to deploy CKAN 2.1 using Linux-based images hosted on Microsoft Open Technologies VM Depot to your existing Windows Azure using exclusively the Web portal
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