Update application using Azure Automation DSC

Question

How do I update application using Azure automation DSC?

When I change the configuration and upload and compile the configuration the status of the Vm node goes from Complaint to Pending status.

Then, I have to wait 30 min for the configuration to pickup the new config which then updates the application. I changed the package version too. Is there a way to force trigger the update?

Following is my code:

Configuration Deploy
{ 
    Import-DscResource -ModuleName cWebPackageDeploy
    Import-Dscresource -ModuleName PowerShellModule  

    node "localhost"
    { 
         cWebPackageDeploy depwebpackage  
         { 
            Name = "website.zip"
            StorageAccount = "testdeploy"
            StorageKey = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
            Ensure = "Present"
            PackageVersion = "1.0"
            DeployPath = "C:\Temp\Testdeploy"
            DependsOn = "[PSModuleResource]Azure.Storage"
         }

          PSModuleResource Azure.Storage
         {
            Ensure = 'present'
            Module_Name = 'Azure.Storage'

         }
    }
} 

Deploy 

Answer 1

There is no way of doing that using Azure Automation natively.
That being said you can always work around that by telling a vm to pull configuration with Update-DscConfiguration.

You can create a script that uploads the configuration, compiles it and forces a VM to pull from the pull server.