I have to admit writing this post feels a bit “old skool”. Prior to the last week I can’t remember the last time I had to break out a Windows Service to solve anything. Regardless, for one cloud-based IaaS project I’m working on I needed a simple worker-type solution that was private and could post data to a private REST API hosted on the other end of an Azure VNet Peer.
While I could have solved this problem any number of ways I plumped for Windows Service primarily because it will be familiar to developers and administrators at the organisation I’m working with, but I figured if I’m going to have to deploy onto VMs I’m sure not deploying in an old-fashioned way! Luckily we’re already running in Azure and hosting on VSTS so I have access to all the tools I need!
Getting Setup
The setup for this process…
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