Implementing Azure Solutions

Understanding the Cloud Service architecture

We now come to the topic Cloud Service architecture. Look at the following diagram:

As you can see, an Azure Cloud Service consists of the following two elements:

• Cloud Services Package: The service package (ServicePackage.cspkg) is a ZIP file and it includes the Service Definition File (ServiceDefinition.csdef) and the Code Assets for the service and the required binary-based dependencies
• Service Configuration File: ServiceConfig.cscfg

As you also can see, the Service Configuration File is outside of the Cloud Service Package. This is because changes in the configuration can be made without interruption ...