Thursday, February 16, 2012

Swap VIP in Window Azure

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Swap VIP is very good feature available in Window azure, I would like to described here about that with good reference link.

What is SWAP VIP ?
There are 2 type of environment on which you can deploy on window azure application.

Staging
In other word you can say testing environment, having similar configuration as per production. Before deploying to production (where actual user will use your application) you can deploy to staging to fix bugs, test security issues, configuration problem etc.

Production
It is actual environment where you can move tested staging application which will be used by real users. (you can directly deploy your application if you are confident on your testing!!)


In sort Swap VIP is azure feather to move application from staging to production by just one click!

How to use Swap VIP?
After testing your application just click on Swap VIP as per shown in above fig.and click ok and it will transfer from staging to production with zero downtime of your original application!

What will happen while swapping?
If you have notice DNS when you have created staging would be as per below.
ID + Cloudapp.net

and in production DNS would be actual URL with something like myapp.cloudapp.net
When you going to swap azure will just transfer this DNS entry.

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