Requirements.txt

SCOPE

Phase 1

Manage follownig services:
- Cloud Services
  - Deployments
    - Instances [crud operations, update config, VIP swap]
- SQL Databases
  - Servers [change admin password and configure firewall]
    - Databases [change database type and size]
		- GeoDr (Linq2AzureEx?)
- Networks
	- Traffic Manager [crud]

Phase 2

- Storage accounts [manage keys and configure]




New Service + Production Deployment
 
LoadSusbcription()
 
CreateNewService("geo location")
var certificates = CreateCertificates() // shells to makecert / pvk2pfx
UploadCertificates(certificates)
CreateDatabase();
 
var config = PrepareDeployment() // alters config templates with deployment specifics (certificate thumbprints, sql connection strings etc)
 
Retry () => PublishDeployment(config, Slot = Production)
Retry () => UpdateProductionDeploymentConfiguration() // enable message processor
Retry () => CreateTrafficManagerPolicies()
 
New Staging Deployment + VIP Swap
 
LoadSusbcription()
 
var certificates = DownloadCertificates(); // we pull down information (thumbprints) from the hosted service about the certificates that are being used
var config = PrepareDeployment() // alters config templates with deployment specifics (certificate thumbprints, sql connection strings etc)
PublishDeployment(config, Slot = Staging)
 
try
{
                Retry () => UpdateDeploymentConfiguration(Slot = Production) // stops message processor & mark as upgrading
                UpdateDatabase()
                Retry () => VipSwap()
}
catch
{
                Retry () => UpdateDeploymentConfiguration(Slot = Production) // enable message processor & remove upgrading flag
                throw
}
finally
{
                DeleteDeployment(Slot = Staging)          
}