Deploying Azure Cloud Service on a Hosted Cloud (not Azure)

Question

I am developing a cloud application deployed on an Azure Cloud Service and I want to deploy it now on another hosting provider provides only a VM.

Is there a way that I install the Azure run-time on Windows VM and it works as an Azure Role without changing the code?

I read about Azure Stack but seems it is not in production yet so I cannot use it.

Answer 1

Is there a way that I install the Azure run-time on Windows VM and it works as an Azure Role without changing the code?

AFAIK, No it's not possible to do so. While it is true that an Azure Cloud Service runs in a VM only but that's just tip of the iceberg. There's much going on behind the scenes which makes the Azure Cloud Service scalable and PaaSy (if that's the correct word :)). Worth mentioning there is the Fabric Controller which manages the lifecycle of the VMs running your cloud services.

I read about Azure Stack but seems it is not in production yet so I cannot use it.

Apart from not being in production, I don't think Azure Stack supports Cloud Services today.