Swap staging programatically via REST api

Question

I'm looking for a way to swap the staging and production slots of a WebSite programmatically. I have done this for many moons with Cloud Services but can't seem to find the REST api to do it with WebSites. I am aware of the Switch-AzureWebsiteSlot powershell cmdlet but I don't want that, I need to do it from code in a winforms app we use for deployments.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You should be able to do this using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.WebSites.

See this post to get started with the library.

Answer 2

Ah, I didn't go down this path as I had my mind set on using the Rest Api. I'll take a look. Though I do wonder if a public Rest Api to do this is forthcoming to stay consistent with other parts of Azure. I'm sure under the covers this Mgmt Library must be using a Rest Api.

Answer 3

Hi George,

Yes, there is a REST API under the cover. It's documented here, but unfortunately it appears to be out of date, and does not cover the Swap API. Yes, we need to fix that :)

David

Answer 4

Ah, so the reality is that there is a public Rest api I could use, it just happens to not yet be documented? Please do update the docs! It would have saved me the hassle here.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 5

Hi George. There is public REST API for this but it looks like it has not been documented yet here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn236427.aspx).

The REST API URL to swap staging and production slots looks like this:

POST https://management.core.windows.net/{Subscription-Id}/services/WebSpaces/{WebSpaceName}/sites/{SiteName}/slots?command=swap&targetSlot=production

Where {siteName} is in this format sitename(slotName). For example if you have site with name mysite and it has staging and production slots, then the URL will be:

POST https://management.core.windows.net/{Subscription-Id}/services/WebSpaces/{WebSpaceName}/sites/mysite(staging)/slots?command=swap&targetSlot=production

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Answer 6

Awesome! Thank you RuslanY, I will give it a try.