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Dimuth Lochana
Dimuth Lochana

Reputation: 249

How to deploy windows service on Azure App Service

I have developed a windows service. i need to deploy it in Azure App Service. Please someone explain me how to do that. Is there any way to install it on console or any other option.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 14331

Answers (2)

Alex Belotserkovskiy
Alex Belotserkovskiy

Reputation: 4062

Azure App Service is the service that should be used for Web/Mobile and basically is the web-server-as-a-service. You have almost no access to the underlying system, and system-wide actions like a working windows service is likely impossible.

I see three ways:

1) Migrate to Worker Role, but it is classic model. There is a good article on how to do that, i took a look and did not see any potential problems. It is more simple way.

2) Migrate your windows service to Web Job and run it as a background service. It will need you to rewrite some parts of your service, i think - but there are supported executable formats out-of-the-box. Take a look at how it works.

3) Take a look at Azure Functions - it is "trigger-and-invoke" service that can be used for listening for events and executing actions.

But, if you need to catch some events from DB, then i am not sure that it will be possible with that, because Web Job is more like a service that listens for external events, and yours scenario looks like you want to catch events from the same server. That way, i would recommend you to place it on a virtual machine to avoid the rewriting or migrating time-consuming issues.

Upvotes: 6

user793891
user793891

Reputation:

You can't deploy a Windows Service using App Service. One option is to convert your code into a Web Job. Another option is to use a Virtual Machine instead of App Service.

Upvotes: 9

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