Staging or Production Instance?

Question

Is there anywhere in the service runtime that would tell me if I'm currently running on 'Staging' or 'Production'? Manually modifying the config to and from production seems a bit cumbersome.

Answer 1

Check this code sample posted by Microsoft doing the exact thing here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/CSAzureDeploymentSlot-1ce0e3b5

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) 

{ 

    // You basic information of the Deployment of Azure application. 

    string deploymentId = RoleEnvironment.DeploymentId; 

    string subscriptionID = "<Your subscription ID>"; 

    string thrumbnail = "<Your certificate thumbnail print>"; 

    string hostedServiceName = "<Your hosted service name>"; 

    string productionString = string.Format(

        "https://management.core.windows.net/{0}/services/hostedservices/{1}/deploymentslots/{2}",

        subscriptionID, hostedServiceName, "Production"); 

    Uri requestUri = new Uri(productionString); 

    // Add client certificate. 

    X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine); 

    store.Open(OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly); 

    X509Certificate2Collection collection = store.Certificates.Find(

        X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, thrumbnail, false); 

    store.Close(); 

    if (collection.Count != 0) 

    { 

        X509Certificate2 certificate = collection[0]; 

        HttpWebRequest httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri); 

        httpRequest.ClientCertificates.Add(certificate); 

        httpRequest.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", "2011-10-01"); 

        httpRequest.KeepAlive = false; 

        HttpWebResponse httpResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

        // Get response stream from Management API. 

        Stream stream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream(); 

        string result = string.Empty; 

        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)) 

        { 

            result = reader.ReadToEnd();

        } 

        if (result == null || result.Trim() == string.Empty) 

        {

            return;

        }

        XDocument document = XDocument.Parse(result); 

        string serverID = string.Empty; 

        var list = from item

                   in document.Descendants(XName.Get("PrivateID",

                       "http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure")) 

                   select item; 

        serverID = list.First().Value; 

        Response.Write("Check Production: "); 

        Response.Write("DeploymentID : " + deploymentId

            + " ServerID :" + serverID); 

        if (deploymentId.Equals(serverID)) 

            lbStatus.Text = "Production"; 

        else 

        { 

            // If the application not in Production slot, try to check Staging slot. 

            string stagingString = string.Format(

                "https://management.core.windows.net/{0}/services/hostedservices/{1}/deploymentslots/{2}",

                subscriptionID, hostedServiceName, "Staging"); 

            Uri stagingUri = new Uri(stagingString); 

            httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(stagingUri); 

            httpRequest.ClientCertificates.Add(certificate); 

            httpRequest.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", "2011-10-01"); 

            httpRequest.KeepAlive = false; 

            httpResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse; 

            stream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream(); 

            result = string.Empty; 

            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)) 

            { 

                result = reader.ReadToEnd();

            } 

            if (result == null || result.Trim() == string.Empty) 

            {

                return;

            }

            document = XDocument.Parse(result); 

            serverID = string.Empty; 

            list = from item

                   in document.Descendants(XName.Get("PrivateID",

                       "http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure")) 

                   select item; 

            serverID = list.First().Value; 

            Response.Write(" Check Staging:"); 

            Response.Write(" DeploymentID : " + deploymentId

                + " ServerID :" + serverID); 

            if (deploymentId.Equals(serverID)) 

            {

                lbStatus.Text = "Staging";

            }

            else 

            {

                lbStatus.Text = "Do not find this id";

            }

        } 

        httpResponse.Close(); 

        stream.Close(); 

    } 

}