Hi there,

We are experiencing a short downtime (~1 minute with YSOD) during the deployment of our Cloud Service.

Before and during deployment we refresh the site from a browser (session cookie enabled).

At some point during deployment we start to receive a YSOD about the web.config having changed while reading it, but when looking at the logs this is before OnStart in our custom EntryPoint (separate assembly from the website assembly).

We have already tried the Arr-Disable-Session-Affinity header without success.

I thought that an incremental update would automatically remove a cloud service instance from the loadbalancer and then deploy the site, but it seems to be broken.

Any help will be appreciated 

Sincerely Esben

Additional info:

The cloud service consists of 2 instances Standard_D3.

Using EPiServer 8.x.

We are directly deploying to the production slot since we have a separate cloud service for staging.

Hi,

We are researching on the query and would get back to you soon on this. I apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your time and patience in this matter.

Best Regards
Prasandhi Kumar

Hi,

 Refer to the following thread that discusses similar issue.
 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/643da225-4fd5-4fba-9ab1-0f8ed79d3705/incremental-deployment-and-downtime?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
 
 Let us know if this helps.

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

Hi,

 Refer to the following thread that discusses similar issue.
 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/643da225-4fd5-4fba-9ab1-0f8ed79d3705/incremental-deployment-and-downtime?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
 
 Let us know if this helps.

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

• Proposed as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 19 hours 17 minutes ago

Hi,

 Refer to the following thread that discusses similar issue.
 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/643da225-4fd5-4fba-9ab1-0f8ed79d3705/incremental-deployment-and-downtime?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
 
 Let us know if this helps.

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

• Proposed as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:03 PM
• Marked as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 18 hours 34 minutes ago

Hi,

 Refer to the following thread that discusses similar issue.
 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/643da225-4fd5-4fba-9ab1-0f8ed79d3705/incremental-deployment-and-downtime?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
 
 Let us know if this helps.

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

• Proposed as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:03 PM
• Marked as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, September 03, 2015 12:46 PM
• Unmarked as answer by drphrozen 22 hours 48 minutes ago
• Unproposed as answer by drphrozen 22 hours 30 minutes ago

Hi,

 Refer to the following thread that discusses similar issue.
 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/643da225-4fd5-4fba-9ab1-0f8ed79d3705/incremental-deployment-and-downtime?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
 
 Let us know if this helps.

Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

• Proposed as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:03 PM
• Marked as answer by Nithin.RathnakarMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, September 03, 2015 12:46 PM
• Unmarked as answer by drphrozen Friday, September 04, 2015 8:33 AM
• Unproposed as answer by drphrozen Friday, September 04, 2015 8:51 AM

This did not help.. There are no project warnings, the only assembly that was missing the Copy Local was the azure runtime (which is set to not copy local when adding the azure sdk/upgrading).

I have also tried upgrading to SDK 2.7.1 without any luck.

I'm not sure about the process activation thing described in the other thread, but it doesn't seem to be relevant.

Follow up:

We get the following warning during deployment, but it seems unavoidable as long as we use a separate assembly as our entrypoint.

     2>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Windows Azur
       e Tools\2.7\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.targets(3003,5): warning : CloudServi
       ces67 : The entrypoint for role Bolia.Website is already defined in the
       service definition file. Ignoring entrypoint Bolia.Website.dll. [D:\tfs\
       Bolia\branches\outlet\src\Bolia.Website.Azure.QA\Bolia.Website.Azure.QA.
       ccproj]