Azure worker role - prevent recycling

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I'm trying something a little weird with the azure cloud service technology. I want to use the autoscaling for both up and down changes.

I'm going to have some instances that are "In Use" though.

Is there any way in a cloud service to either: Mark an instance as non-recyclable or Abort the teardown of an instance in the WorkerRole.OnStop method

If not, what criteria does azure use to determine what gets recycled? Maybe I can keep the instance in a state where azure won't recycle it?

Thanks

Please see this blog post: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-right-way-to-handle-azure-onstop-events/. Does this help? — Gaurav Mantri, Nov 05 '15 at 15:53
Thanks for the feedback guys. Both those articles appear to be about delaying recycling for ~5 minutes. I really need to be able to indefinitely deny the recycle. I keep reading, but I'm not finding anything about how to do that (if you even can) — Steve, Nov 13 '15 at 17:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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See Azure Compute Service worker becomes "busy" following scale-up. In short, your role instances should not be recycling during scaling operations. If they are, then check the code in your Changing event per the link.

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answered Nov 05 '15 at 19:41

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '16 at 20:27

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In case anyone runs into this, I can accomplish what I need to with Scale Sets https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machine-scale-sets-overview/

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