Learning Microsoft Azure

Start-up tasks

Start-up tasks are command-line scripts that can be added to a role in the ServiceDefinition.csdef file, allowing the role to perform activities before the role has started. These activities might be things such as installing a third-party package or making environmental or configuration changes. Start-up tasks are the best way of customizing a server rather than making manual changes using a remote desktop. We're going to have a very brief look at this area, so it's worth doing some additional reading around this area yourself.

Creating a batch script

To get started, we need to create a .cmd batch script to perform a task (you can also write PowerShell .ps1 scripts) called DemoTasks.cmd and put it in a solution folder called Tasks ...