How can I rebuild an azure search index on prod?

Question

how can we change index schema on prod with minimun outages? is there a way to "Swap" services(like we do on web roles) and mantain functionalities when re-creating the index?

Answer 1

You can implement this via application configuration as follows:

1. Make sure the app depends on configuration for deciding which index to talk to.
2. Build a new index
3. Update app config to use the new index

Please vote for relevant Azure Search UserVoice suggestions:

1. Support schema changes with reindexing
2. Support swapping indexes