Single Visual Studio Azure Project deploy multiple Cloud Service

Question

Somewhat new to Azure. We have 3 different cloud service accounts (dev/qa/prod). We have the same 1 web role and 2 worker roles we'd like to deploy to these cloud service accounts. In Visual Studio (2013), I have currently one Azure Project with the 1 web role and 2 worker roles. I have created 3 different ServiceConfigurations for each environment. I can create a deployment package using the corresponding ServiceConfiguration. So far so good.

Now, it seems I can only have one ServiceDefintion.csdef file. If I want different VM sizing for my envs (i.e. different ServiceDefinition.csdef file for each env), how can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

Found various solutions/options:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/philliphoff/archive/2012/07/02/transform-windows-azure-service-model-files-during-packaging.aspx
• Azure: Is there any way to deploy different instance sizes for test/production

However, I ultimately resolved the issue at our deployment server (Octopus). I have a single definition file and 2 config files (local and cloud) - the defaults in VS. For workstation debug the local serviceconfiguration is used. When I build and package I use the cloud serviceconfiguration as starting point. Then in Octopus I transform / variable substitute both the servicedefintion and serviceconfiguration based on target deployment environment.