Is it possible to enable Always On for Azure websites through management/resource management APIs?

Question

I am writing some code for automatic deployment of Azure websites (including the creation of the website in Azure). I\'m using the Azure Management Libraries and Azure Resou

Answer 1

For those using the .Net API, it's

var cfg = await websiteClient.Sites.GetSiteConfigAsync(site.ResourceGroup, site.Name, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
if (!cfg.AlwaysOn.GetValueOrDefault())
{
    cfg.AlwaysOn = true;
    await websiteClient.Sites.UpdateSiteConfigAsync(site.ResourceGroup, site.Name, cfg, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
}

Answer 2

Using updated ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Powershell, v1.0+

Get-AzureRmResource: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt652503.aspx

Set-AzureRmResource: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt652514.aspx

# Variables - substitute your own values here
$ResourceGroupName = 'My Azure RM Resource Group Name'
$WebAppName = 'My Azure RM WebApp Name'
$ClientAffinityEnabled = $false

# Property object for nested, not exposed directly properties
$WebAppPropertiesObject = @{"siteConfig" = @{"AlwaysOn" = $true}}

# Variables
$WebAppResourceType = 'microsoft.web/sites'

# Get the resource from Azure (consider adding sanity checks, e.g. is $webAppResource -eq $null)
$webAppResource = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceType $WebAppResourceType -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -ResourceName $WebAppName

# Set a directly exposed property, in this case whether client affinity is enabled
$webAppResource.Properties.ClientAffinityEnabled = $ClientAffinityEnabled

# Pass the resource object into the cmdlet that saves the changes to Azure
$webAppResource | Set-AzureRmResource -PropertyObject $WebAppPropertiesObject -Force

Answer 3

I believe I found the solution!

Using the resource management API, I can set the AlwaysOn property through the siteConfig object. In powershell:

Set-AzureResource -ApiVersion 2014-04-01 -PropertyObject @{"siteConfig" = @{"AlwaysOn" = $false}} -Name mywebsite -ResourceGroupName myrg -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites

In the resource management API in .NET it would be similar to this.

The resulting REST call, to https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/xxx/resourcegroups/yyy/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/zzz?api-version=2014-04-01: { "location": "West Europe", "properties": { "siteConfig": { "AlwaysOn": true } }, "tags": {} }