Configure commonly used settings for a cloud service

Hi All,
Have a question regarding Azure Cloud Service. If I change a cloud service setting (Cloud Service -> Configure) in the portal, does the change persist if or when an instance is re-imaged? For example, if I change the "DatabaseRetryCount"
parameter from 5 to 10 and save it, this change will update the runtime configuration. However, when Azure rebuild this role, is this change get carried over?
Thanks

In azure cloud services nothing is persistent, meaning that every time role instances are restarted or created, it will be created from the scratch and will pick up only those settings which you either have done in the role start up or defined as a start
up activity.
About azure cloud service configuration files, i.e. cscfg - you can specify the settings similar to what you define in web configuration file of your application, these settings can be read at run time and can be reffered in your custom code. If you add
/ update any setting from the portal - you should also do similar in cscfg file in your solution so that next time you upgrade the deployment, the updated settings will be deployed.
Read more information here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee758710.aspx
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