What is "Deployment ID" and "Deployment unique name"

Question

I can not understand, what is "Deployment ID" and "Deployment unique name" for Azure cloud service. Azure Powershell tools seems to autogenerate them, but what is their purpose? How they can be used? When "deployment slot" is not enough? In what sense deployment name is "unique"?

Answer 1

Deployment ID is an number (GUID) automatically assigned by Windows Azure. You can use that identifier in order to identify entries in diagnostics logs.

Deployment unique name - seems to be another auto-generated identifier (GUID) which is used by Windows Azure Service Management REST API to retrieve information about specific deployment etc. e.g. in order to change deployment configuration you can send following POST message (deployment-name is unique name of your deployment)

https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/<service-name>/deployments/<deployment-name>/?comp=config

Deployment name is arbitrary name which you specifies during your package deployment. Usually you can use that name to provide some additional package information such as your software version number e.g. v1.0.0.1 or WebSite v.1.2.0.1 HOTFIX-3