Publish an Azure project from the command line

Question

I have an Azure WebRole project, and I can successfully publish it using the built-in Visual Studio wizard, but we want to automate this process.

How can I publish Azure WebRole using MSbuild or any other command line tool?

Answer 1

You can also create a console application. I posted a sample code there: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Automating-a-deployment-ecd7bf3b

Answer 2

Here are two good articles about this:

• http://blog.slalom.com/2011/08/19/building-and-deploying-windows-azure-projects-using-msbuild-and-tfs-2010/ - this is very good, as it covers the propagation of service definitions in the same Azure ccproj using custom WindowsAzure.targets file and other useful hacks.

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tomholl/archive/2011/12/06/automated-build-and-deployment-with-windows-azure-sdk-1-6.aspx - this is also good, but it uses PowerShell cmdlets, which is pretty good, but requires one more component to be installed on the build machine, which you sometimes avoid.

Answer 3

This question is quite old, but I recently cleared a simple one-line command tool that you can download to your solution through NuGet.

Basically:

.\SrirachaTools\Runners\Azure\sriracha.run.exe --taskBinary=Sriracha.DeployTask.Azure.dll --taskName=DeployCloudServiceTask --configFile=.\MyDeployCloudService.json --outputFormat text 

More details here: http://mooneyblog.mmdbsolutions.com/index.php/2015/03/21/windows-azure-6-deploying-via-sriracha-command-line-tools/

NuGet package here: http://www.nuget.org/packages/Sriracha.DeployTask.Azure/

And the code is here: https://github.com/mmooney/Sriracha2/