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pollirrata
pollirrata

Reputation: 5286

Auto scale up web role in Azure

When working on scaling scenarios, there is a lot of info on how to scale out automatically a web role in Microsoft Azure.

I've been looking for info on how to scale up (increase instance size) a web role automatically with no luck.

Does anybody know if is there any reason for this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 251

Answers (1)

Alex Belotserkovskiy
Alex Belotserkovskiy

Reputation: 4062

I do not remember if there ever was any tool or portal functionality to do that and change the size.

VM size for the cloud service is defined by the csdef file. Csdef file is in the cloud service package file - so, for that, the autoscaling process should automate the re-upload of the package file. I suppose that re-uploading the file with the package would start the deployment from a scratch. And the amount of instances are implemented in the cscsfg file that should be uploaded as a file beside the package.

So, i believe, it may not be built because it can not be implemented in such manner that it can be very stable and/or fast for everyone (i mean, to autoscale something that requires the package file to redeployed likely means to have that not working for a time being).

Upvotes: 3

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