Publishing a bot is most likely one of the last steps within your chatbot development life cycle as this operation is done when you built your chatbot and tested it locally until the point you are satisfied with the conversational experience. If this is the case, you can go ahead and publish your bot which enables you to connect it to the channels which are offered by the Azure Bot Service later on, which will be described in Chapter 8. The aim of this chapter, however, is to walk you through the process of publishing a Composer bot to Microsoft Azure.
The publishing ...
