I've been deploying to my cloud service/web role pretty regularly for over a year with no issues. But suddenly, today, my deployment bombed with the following error:
The HTTP request to 'https://management.core.windows.net/*****/services/hostedservices/*****?embed-detail=true' has exceeded the allotted timeout of 00:01:00. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.
And when I attempt to view the resource in the Azure portal dashboard, it eventually times out and displays a rain cloud icon. I get the same timeout and rain cloud icon when clicking on "Roles and Instances".
Azure's status page shows my region "West US" doesn't have any issues.
Interestingly, I can still access my application via the browser, so some instance is there and running, I just can't deploy updates to it or manage it in any way via the Azure portal.
What are my options here? I was hoping I could RDP into it and force it to reboot or restart IIS or something, but everything I click on related to the cloud service in the portal times out. I'd hate to have to attempt to delete it and create a new one as it's a pain to get the settings in sync, and often times I can't name it the same, etc.
Any ideas?
So, after going down the rabbit hole for about an hour playing around with the new Cloud Shell feature from the Azure portal to see if I could reboot it via a power shell command, the issue seems to have resolved itself. I guess it was some sort of temporary hiccup with Azure or something, but I can now see my cloud service/web role in the portal and can now deploy to it.