Create Cloud Service

Updated: November 1, 2013

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Create Cloud Service activity creates a new cloud service in Windows Azure. It is part of the Azure Cloud Services category activity.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

Create Cloud Service Required Properties

Element

Description

Value type

Service DNS Prefix

The DNS prefix name for the Windows Azure cloud service.

String

Label

A friendly name for the cloud service. 

String

Description

A description for the cloud service.

String

Location/Affinity Group

Whether to create the cloud service in a certain location or affinity group.

String

Location/Affinity Group Value

The location where the cloud service will be created, or the name of an existing affinity group associated with the subscription.

String

Create Cloud Service Optional Properties

There are no optional properties for this runbook activity.

Create Cloud Service Published Data

Element

Description

Value type

Service DNS Prefix

The DNS prefix name for the Windows Azure cloud service.

String

Label

A friendly name for the cloud service. 

String

Description

A description for the cloud service.

String

Location/Affinity Group

Whether to create the cloud service in a certain location or affinity group.

String

Location/Affinity Group Value

The location where the cloud service will be created, or the name of an existing affinity group associated with the subscription.

String

See Also

Other Resources

Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator