如何将工作角色部署到azure中？

Question

I have an mvc4 web application working in azure. I have now created a worker role which works as an email (reminders) sender.

How should I deploy this worker role into azure? Creating a cloud service through management portal doesn't seem right.. I don't see how will this worker role be connected to my web site?

I use a Git for managing deployments. Can I just commit and push my worker role? This doesn't seem enough..

Once deployed, how will I be able to stop this service?

I would really much appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

An Azure Cloud Service is fine, and you could use a technology like Azure Storage Queues as a communication mechanism between the MVC 4 web app and the worker role.

Alternatively, you could host an ASP.NET Web API endpoint in your worker role and expose that. See this blog post .

Starting and stopping the service can be done via the Azure portal.