How to detect if the environment is staging or production in azure hosted service worker role?

Question

I have a worker role in my hosted service. The worker is sending e-mail daily bases. But in the hosted service, there are 2 environment, Staging and Production. So my worker role sends e-mail 2 times everyday. I'd like to know how to detect if the worker is in stagning or production. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As per my question here, you'll see that there is no fast way of doing this. Also, unless you really know what you are doing, I strongly suggest you not do this.

However, if you want to, you can use a really nice library (Azure Service Management via C#) although we did have some trouble with WCF using it.

Here's a quick sample on how to do it (note, you need to include the management certificate as a resource in your code & deploy it to Azure):

 private static bool IsStaging()
        {
            try
            {
                if (!CloudEnvironment.IsAvailable)
                    return false;

                const string certName = "AzureManagement.pfx";
                const string password = "Pa$$w0rd";

                // load certificate
                var manifestResourceStream = typeof(ProjectContext).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(certName);
                if (manifestResourceStream == null)
                {
                    // should we panic?
                    return true;
                }

                var bytes = new byte[manifestResourceStream.Length];
                manifestResourceStream.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

                var cert = new X509Certificate2(bytes, password);

                var serviceManagementChannel = Microsoft.Toolkit.WindowsAzure.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementHelper.
                    CreateServiceManagementChannel("WindowsAzureServiceManagement", cert);

                using (new OperationContextScope((IContextChannel)serviceManagementChannel))
                {
                    var hostedServices =
                        serviceManagementChannel.ListHostedServices(WellKnownConfiguration.General.SubscriptionId);

                    // because we don't know the name of the hosted service, we'll do something really wasteful
                    // and iterate
                    foreach (var hostedService in hostedServices)
                    {
                        var ad =
                            serviceManagementChannel.GetHostedServiceWithDetails(
                                WellKnownConfiguration.General.SubscriptionId,
                                hostedService.ServiceName, true);

                        var deployment =
                            ad.Deployments.Where(
                                x => x.PrivateID == Zebra.Framework.Azure.CloudEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstanceId).
                                FirstOrDefault
                                ();

                        if (deployment != null)
                        {
                            return deployment.DeploymentSlot.ToLower().Equals("staging");
                        }
                    }
                }

                return false;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                // if something went wrong, let's not panic
                TraceManager.AzureFrameworkTraceSource.TraceData(System.Diagnostics.TraceEventType.Error, "Exception", e);
                return false;
            }
        }