What causes a completely new underlying VM to be provisioned?

Question

I'm curious if it's something like a change in the CSDEF file causes a new completely new machine to be provisioned and what, if anything else, could cause it.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Darielmarlow,

Thanks for posting here.

It will not provision new machine, If you are manually making changes by remoting into the VM, then if due to unknown reason the VM is re-provisioned (for ex: service healing, maintenance etc) then the changes you have made will be lost. 

The recommended way to update your deployments/applications is to upload the .cspkg  and .cscfg manually from the classic portal or using visual studio.

Ref: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/cloud-services-how-to-manage/

Hope this helps.

Girish Prajwal

Answer 2

Thanks for the reply. I'm curious as to what actually causes new machine re-provisioning. "Unknown reasons" don't sit well with me :)

Is there any information on what things cause re-provisioning?

Answer 3

Hi,

It could be for ex: service healing, planned maintenance, service interruption where the cloud service is hosted etc

Girish Prajwal

Answer 4

So it's nothing related to the csdef/cscfg or any application level settings, correct?