Anyone know good rule of thumb for what's in .CSDEF versus .CSCFG?

I was surprised by a few questions on the 532 and 533 exam that more or less wanted to me to recall exactly what settings were in which configuration files for Cloud Services.  I think at the basic level this is a pretty tough thing to discern without documentation in front of me.

For example:  Scaling the instance count for a given Role is defined in the .cscfg file, but the instance size for a Role is in .csdef.  It's not obvious to me why one versus the other is appropriate.

Anyone have any useful tips for remembering/recalling what goes where?

Thanks!

-Ben


[EDIT] - Got my csdef and cscfg mixed up!
August 26th, 2015 1:23pm

Ha, good catch!  I'll go edit it but highlight the mistake I made so no one thinks I'm trying to hide it :)


That's a similar story to what I heard on Stackoverflow (where I asked this as well).  The Need to re-deploy for csdef changes seems to be the best "hinge point" to keep in mind, and makes it easiest to remember where size is defined versus count (which of course can be dynamic too).

Thanks for the response!

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August 27th, 2015 9:39am

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