Umbraco Cloud. Anyone have any tips for making the deploy process not take 5 years. Currently taking 27 minutes to deploy 11mb zip file. I got to think this is the slowest deployment I’ve ever experienced in my development career. Anyone migrated off cloud because of this? What was your solution?
Hi Eric 
We’ve had quite a few sites on Umbraco Cloud since the beginning — I’ve not seen a deploy take 27 minutes ever, so I’m guessing there’s something atypical going on in your case 
Are you talking about a deploy from local to DEV/LIVE (using Git) or is it a deploy between environments (in the portal) that’s taking so long? And where does the 11MB zip come from (i.e., I’ve never seen a deploy mentioning a filesize).
/Chriztian
I don’t have experience with cloud, but with Azure in general. Usually with a zip deploy it’s not the size of the ZIP but the number of very small files that are in the zip. Are you including a looot of small files in the zip? Having said that, 27 minutes seems a bit excessive.
I have a few sites with cloud varying in size and complexity and they all average around 10/15 minutes to deploy from my CI/CD pipeline in DevOps to Cloud. However, I’ve experienced issues in the past deploying between enviroments i.e. test to staging where it can take a prologoned time or timeout/stuck during the deploy process.
However in comparison my artifact size for example on my largest site is about 3mb but I do have a lot of exclusion rules in place for things like App_Plugins or even FE files that are compiled on build that can add a lot of additional files as Luuk mentioned.
I did eventually hear back and it appears it was resource starvation. After bench marking my build I should still have had 75% headroom on memory. Still working with support but seems like some serious problems on the cloud side if my build/project is resource starving this instance. Will wait to see what kind of resolution we get but kinda seems shady to me given my benchmarks.
For those wondering the 11Mb was the CI artifact zip that is getting pushed to my development environment. Yes there were many many small files as uda’s exist and also many svg icons etc. (4288 files total) I’ll likely be on cloud for the rest of this project at least, but this experience will definitely have me reaching for Azure first in the future.
Anyone have some logs or metrics for their deploys on Umbraco cloud would love to see what other peoples deploys look like for CPU/Memory usage.