Upgrading Cloud Service

Hi,
We currently have an Azure Cloud Service with multiple roles/instances running and we are planning to upgrade the software. Assuming I have uploaded and deployed the new package. What is the process for getting the current active (running) instance
updated? Is this automatic or do I need to manually perform a "reimage" on each running instance?
Thanks

Hi Ultragc88,
Once you redeploy the *.cspkg by any of the 3 options the Fabric Controller will automatically deploy this new code to the instance and you don't have to re-image the roles. The deployment will happen Upgrade (interchangeably called Update ) Domain by Upgrade
Domain. So if there are 4 Instances spread across 4 Upgrade Domains the new deployment will be done first on the Instances (in this case just Instance_0 ) in the first Upgrade Domain i.e UD 0. Once it is up and send a signal back that it is alive, it will
be added back to the Load Balancer and the next set of Instances (in this case Instance_1) in the subsequent UD i.s UD 1 will be taken up for code upgrade. This will continue till all the UDs have been updated with the new *.cspkg.
One thing I would like to point out is that if you have any configurable values then put them in the *.cscfg and they can be updated right from the portal without requiring a re-deployment. But if it's a code change or any modification to the *.csdef then
it needs to be redeployed.
Let us know if you have any additional questions.
Regards,
Angshuman Nayak
Cloud Integration Engineering

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