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Igor Gatis
Igor Gatis

Reputation: 4898

How to get subscription id programmatically in a Azure Role?

I have this Worker Role which makes use of REST Management API (through https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net), whose the most basic pre-requisite is the Subscription ID.

Is there a way to get the Subscription ID from a running (worker) role? E.g. say, through RoleEnvironment?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1779

Answers (1)

kwill
kwill

Reputation: 11008

Sorry Gatis, there is no way to get this via any method provided by Azure*. You would need to pass this information into your role using something like the CSCFG configuration settings.

For a little more context - the subscription ID is only known at the RDFE layer. Once you are in the Fabric layer (ie. your running Worker Role) then there is no concept of a subscription ID. You can see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2011/05/05/windows-azure-role-architecture.aspx, process A and steps 1&2, for a little more info.

*If you are using AAD authentication for your Service Management API calls then you could get a list of all subscriptions for that AAD user using 'List Azure Subscriptions' - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn775050.aspx. With those subscriptions you could enumerate all cloud services and match the deployment ID to the deployment ID for your worker role.

Edit: Typo in first paragraph. Changed 'something like the Subscription ID' to 'something like the CSCFG configuration settings'.

Upvotes: 6

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