Reset an Azure Cloud Service (extended support)

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  • 04/28/2025

Important

As of March 31, 2025, cloud Services (extended support) is deprecated and will be fully retired on March 31, 2027. Learn more about this deprecation and how to migrate.

These samples cover various ways to reset an existing Azure Cloud Service (extended support) deployment.

Reimage role instances of cloud service

$roleInstances = @("ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0", "ContosoBackEnd_IN_1")
Invoke-AzCloudServiceReimage -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstance $roleInstances

This command reimages two role instances ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0 and ContosoBackEnd_IN_1 of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

Reimage all roles of Cloud Service

Invoke-AzCloudServiceReimage -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstance "*"

This command reimages all role instances of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

Reimage a single role instance of a Cloud Service

Invoke-AzCloudServiceRoleInstanceReimage -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstanceName "ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0"

This command reimages role instance named ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0 of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

Rebuild role instances of cloud service

$roleInstances = @("ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0", "ContosoBackEnd_IN_1")
Invoke-AzCloudServiceRebuild -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstance $roleInstances

This command rebuilds two role instances ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0 and ContosoBackEnd_IN_1 of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

Rebuild all roles of cloud service

Invoke-AzCloudServiceRebuild -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstance "*"

This command rebuilds all role instances of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

Restart role instances of cloud service

$roleInstances = @("ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0", "ContosoBackEnd_IN_1")
Restart-AzCloudService -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstance $roleInstances

This command restarts two role instances ContosoFrontEnd_IN_0 and ContosoBackEnd_IN_1 of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

Restart all roles of cloud service

Restart-AzCloudService -ResourceGroupName "ContosOrg" -CloudServiceName "ContosoCS" -RoleInstance "*"

This command restarts all role instances of cloud service named ContosoCS that belongs to the resource group named ContosOrg.

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