Azure Deployments with Team City and Powershell

My constant gripe with Azure is the quality of the error messages that it emits. Over the last week I burned days trying to solve a certificate issues that did not exist. Those horrid error messages bit me again while trying to setup automated deployments from Team City to Azure.

I found some great resources to getting Azure deployments working:

• http://www.ben.geek.nz/2011/09/using-teamcity-and-powershell-to-deploy-automated-builds-to-windows-azure/
• http://mooneyblog.mmdbsolutions.com/index.php/2013/01/23/windows-azure-4-deploying-via-powershell/
• http://michaelsync.net/2013/11/02/windows-azure-deployment-problem-and-solution-1

Between those 3 blogs I was able to get Team City up and running with automated deployments to Azure. But for one reason the script didn’t work for me. So I’ve created a Gist with the script I’m using for the Azure deployment https://gist.github.com/wavetech/8041146.

Another problem I ran into, circling back to horrid error messages is my build was getting this error:

 The certificate with thumbprint was not found.

Ignore that warning! Look deeper, I got caught with trying to fix that error, as it was the first one, but the real error message is:

ResourceNotFound. Message: No deployments were found.

For me, I had the paths wrong for my cspkg for the service I was trying to deploy. So multiple errors, a path issue and a config variable issue. Once I fixed those errors it worked great.

Happy Deployments!