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Mister Epic
Mister Epic

Reputation: 16733

Stop worker role instance from Windows Azure Management Portal

There is probably an easy solution to this, but my searching has been unable to find it.

In my Azure solution, I have a worker role with two instances that are pulling messages off a queue for processing. For debugging purposes, I want to temporarily stop those instances.

If I click on Cloud Services, and then click Instances, I see my two instances which are running, but there doesn't appear to be any way to pause/stop/turn them off. Any ideas as to how I can?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1873

Answers (1)

Gaurav Mantri
Gaurav Mantri

Reputation: 136236

there doesn't appear to be any way to pause/stop/turn them off

You're correct in your observation because you can't pause/stop/turn off a specific instance. You could stop or turn off an entire cloud service but not an individual instance. You could however delete a particular instance but that's not something you have in mind if I understand correctly.

Any ideas as to how I can?

Do take a look at this blog post: http://alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/temporarily-taking-a-cloud-service-role-instances-off-of-the-load-balancer/. Basically the trick is to make an instance Busy so that Azure load balancer does not send request to that instance.

Upvotes: 1

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