Combining/deploying storage accounts

Question

I am working on a team of 4 developers that are building an Azure web application. We each are using the Azure emulator on our local machines to do our development and therefore we each have our own local storage accounts running in SQLExpress.

Is there a way to manually or automatically synchronize storage across all the local storage instances? Along those same lines, when we deploy into Azure, is there a way to copy everything from the local storage into Azure?

Answer 1

Hi jeffrod,

You can create a setup your local shared development environment by sharing the local storage emulator. Essentially,  the storage emulator makes use of SQL Server. Afterwards, you can point all storage emulators to a central SQL Server instance and by this way create a local shared storage emulator. You can get more information here.

There is another similar thread that talks about this.

Hope this helps!

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Best Regards,
Carlos Sardo

Answer 2

Thanks Carlos. That will be helpful moving forward but I still have 4 developers that are working in different sections today. Is there a way to merge or transfer storage containers from one emulator to another? Or from one emulator to Azure?

Answer 3

Thanks Carlos. That will be helpful moving forward but I still have 4 developers that are working in different sections today. Is there a way to merge or transfer storage containers from one emulator to another? Or from one emulator to Azure?

Hi jeffrod,

I recommend you taking a look at this tool:  Azure Storage Backup

Mind if I ask, why not use a real storage account and share among your devs?

Hope this helps!

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Best Regards,
Carlos Sardo

Answer 4

I am not sure if this makes sense. Why are you not using azure storage account across all developers. This will save you lot of headaches down the line.

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MkMahesh

Answer 5

We aren't sharing because we are all new to Azure and didn't know we could do this or needed to do this. Now that we do, we will do this on all projects. Thanks Carlos!

Answer 6

The tool looked good at first glance but it is still under development and as far as I can tell is unusable.