Having written about lifting and shifting a Console Application, I decided to mirror the scenario and describe how a similar method can be used to lift and shift a Windows Service to Microsoft Azure.

Moving a Service to Microsoft Azure

Every time I dig a little deeper into Azure, I’m amazed at how much there is to know. Having done a few projects with Cloud Services in the past, I thought it would be interesting to see if it was possible to lift and shift a Windows Service into an Azure Worker Role.

Lift and Shift: The action of moving a workload to a new environment, without altering the application’s code.

In Microsoft Azure ANSI, Cloud Services, Configurations, Guest OS, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Lift & Shift, Microsoft Azure, Package, Platform as a Service (PaaS), PowerShell, Roles, Virtual Machine, Windows Service, Worker Role, XML

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Moving to Microsoft Azure

Every time I dig a little deeper into Azure, I’m amazed at how much there is to know. Having done a few projects with Cloud Services in the past, I thought it would be interesting to see if it was possible to lift and shift a Console Application into an Azure Worker Role.

Lift and Shift: The action of moving a workload to a new environment, without altering the application’s code.

In Microsoft Azure ANSI, Cloud Services, Configurations, Guest OS, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Lift & Shift, Microsoft Azure, Package, Platform as a Service (PaaS), PowerShell, Queue Storage, Roles, Virtual Machine, Worker Role, XML

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How do you Inject Configurations into Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Startup Tasks?

March 19, 2014 — 2 Comments

Using XPath we can pass configuration values from the Cloud Service configurations to Environment Variables that can then be used as parameters for the Startup Task executable.