More In-Place Updates options = more elasticity

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Windows Azure recently adds new in-place updates options, and that give us more elasticity capabilities. The new in-place updates options are:

  • Change the virtual machine size.
  • Increase local storage.
  • Add or remove roles to a deployment.
  • Change the number or type of endpoints.

That means that we don’t need a VIP swap or re-deploy anymore to apply those changes in our deployments. The principal advantage of use In-Place Updates is that the service availability can be maintained as long as there are at least two instances for each role. This update options requires Windows Azure SDK 1.5 or later.

More info: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/10/19/announcing-improved-in-place-updates.aspx