surviving the azure avalanche

DEVintersectionSession AS22

Surviving the Azure AvalancheMichele Leroux [email protected]

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Michele Leroux BustamanteManaging Partner

Solliance (solliance.net) CEO and Cofounder

Snapboard (snapboard.com)

Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft MVP

Author, SpeakerPluralsight courses on the way!Blog: michelebusta.com

[email protected]

@michelebusta

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Windows Azure FeaturesCompute

VirtualNetwork

TrafficManager

CDN

Storage

Queues

Storage

Tables

Storage

Blobs

SQL Database

SQL Data Sync

SQL Reporting

HDInsight (Hadoop)

Caching Recovery Services

Windows Azure Active Directory

Access Control

Media Services

Service Bus

Store

Web Site Cloud Service

Virtual Machine

ApplicationServices

Marketplace

DataServices

Networking

MobileServices

Windows Azure FeaturesCompute

Web Site Cloud Service

Virtual Machine

Your Datacenter

Virtualization

O/S

Hardware

Network

Data

Applications

Firewall

Web Sites

Applications

Data

Cloud Services

Applications

Firewall Rules

Data

Virtual Network

Virtual Machines

Virtual Network

Data

Applications

Firewall Rules

O/S

Focus on the Application

Windows Azure

IaaSVirtual Machines

Virtual Machine Provisioning

Choose a VM

Blob Storage

Generate

Provision

Select your VHD

Blob Storage

Upload

Provision



Why choose a VM?

Migrate existing apps without changes Complex software deployment, easier with full control over VM Appliance or pre-existing VM SQL Server over SQL DB

VERY common choice Prefer IaaS and have staff for IT operations support

Job Security

PaaSCloud Services & Web Sites

Once upon a time…

There were only cloud services

Michele used these for all her customers…and life was simple.

Then along came web sites

…but Michele thought life was still simple…because this feature was just for blogs and cute little web sites…BUT…

Web Sites



Scale

Free

Shared

Reserved

Multi-tenant. Daily quotas

Multi-tenant. No quotas

Dedicated VMs. No quotas



Supported Web Frameworks

Or any custom FastCGI Handler



part

ners

http://webmasterformat.com/sites/default/files/DotNetNuke-Logo.gif

http://www.thelostagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/umbraco_logo.png

http://www.nazmarketing.co.uk/logo_joomla.jpg

http://blog.websitetemplates.bz/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Drupal_logo1.jpg



Supported Publishing Methods

Git TFSWeb DeployFTP

Cloud Services



What is a Cloud Service?

A container of related service roles

Web Role Worker Role



Upload to Windows Azure

Packaging & Deployment

Microsoft Visual StudioWeb Role

Worker Role



ROLE

VIP Swap

VM1 VM2

VM3 VM4

VM1 VM2

VM3 VM4



Back to our story…

Core Feature Comparison

Cloud Services Web Sites

WIF 3.5 Required ✔ .NET 4.5

SSL ✔

Dedicated IP ✔

Performance Counters ✔ WHO CARES?

Auto-scale ✔

Global Assembly Cache ✔ WHO CARES?

Distributed Cache ✔

Custom Software ✔ Nuget (LIMITED)

VM Scale Out Control ✔



Web Site Drivers

Some web site specialties: Sites based on built-in Azure templates such as blogs, wikis,

and CMS sites

MySQL database alternative

In reality, many will default to web sites first unless there is a cloud service driver

http://blog.websitetemplates.bz/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Drupal_logo1.jpg

Cloud Service Drivers


Control over IIS Settings

?

Dynamic DNS ?

Internal Endpoints

Asynchronous Workers

Virtual Network

RDP ?

Non-HTTP Protocols

Control over OS UpdatesCertificate store access ?

Some Personal Preferences


Staging, SWAP Rollback

Headless Deployment Single File Updates

Proprietary deployment Familiar deployment

Resource path changes Standard paths

If cloud services needed, deploy all cloud services

Improved management of both in portal now

Built in diagnostics, tracing

Yep

CustomersChoice!!!

✔

✔

…and so

Michele is running out of arguments in favor…

THE END

Windows Azure Features

Storage

Tables

SQL Database

SQL Data Sync

SQL Reporting

HDInsight (Hadoop)

DataServices



SQL DB and SQL Server

SQL DB (formerly SQL Azure) 150GB limit No backup logs / replay Other SQL features

SQL Server on Azure VM Popular alternative 1TB limit (blob storage)



Map Reduce from 10K Feet

Company B Company CCompany A

AggregateData

(all Companies)

HDInsight

Company A

Server

Company C

Company B

HDInsight(local)

HDInsight(local)

HDInsight(local)

Don’t Drink the KoolaidnoSQL

Hadoop

Big Data



Don’t Drink the Koolaid

noSQL requires planning Many people return to relational Start relational and figure your model out first Get an expert involved if you need noSQL

BigData is not for everyone In many cases it is not needed

Get an expert, like: Lynn Langit www.contagiouscuriosity.com

http://www.contagiouscuriosity.com/


VirtualNetwork

TrafficManager

Networking



Virtual Networks

Azure Virtual Machines& Cloud Services

On-Premise Devices

VPN Device

DNS

AD

VPN Gateway

IPSec



Traffic Manager

Load balance endpoints Fail over in emergency to

another region Look for closest server Round robin (only if you use

regions instead of instance scaling)


Windows Azure Active Directory

Access Control

ApplicationServices



Access Control and MainstreamIdentity Providers

Your App

AccessControl

Google

Yahoo!Windows

Live

FaceBook

Browser

1 25

3

4



Access Control, Social & Azure AD (vision)

Your App

AccessControl

Google

Yahoo!Windows

Live

FaceBook

Browser

UserProfile

AnyIdP

AzureAD


Caching

ApplicationServices



Caching is Good

Co-Located Caching Allocate % of memory on each VM Together produce distributed cache total Any role can access

Worker RoleWeb Role

apis.bustacloud.com

Web Role

bustacloud.com

Web App Web API Web APISB

QueueServic

e

Storage

QueueWorke

r



Caching is Good

Shared Caching Allocate worker roles for caching Together produce distributed cache total

Worker RoleWeb RoleWeb Role

SBQueueServic

e

Storage

QueueWorke

r

Worker RoleWorker Role Worker Role

apis.bustacloud.combustacloud.com

Web App Web API Web API


Service Bus

ApplicationServices

Storage

Queues

DataServices



Service Bus as DMZ

Service Service Service

Web API Web API

Browser BrowserRich

ClientsMVC /JQuery AJAX

Service

MobileClients

DMZ

Corporate Domain

MVCSite

Web Forms

Site



Service Bus to Data On Premise / Migration

Service

Client

Web Application

Service Bus

Corporate Domain

Windows Azure



Queues

Queue

Queue



Topics

TopicSubSubSub

Queue Comparison

Service Bus Queues Storage Queues

Unlimited message lifetime

7 days expiry

Max 64K message size Max 256K message size

Max 5GB total storage Max 100TB total storageDuplicate detection

Order guarantees

Dead letter queue

Storage metrics

Purge capability

Long polling Manual back-off polling


ApplicationServices

MobileServices



What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server LogicLogging & Diag

ScaleScheduler



Push Notification Lifecycle Overview

1. Request Channel URI

2. Register with your Cloud Service

3. Authenticate & Push Notification

Windows 8

(1)

(2)

(3)

(3)



Notifications: Different services

Windows 8:

Windows Push Notification Service (WNS)

Windows Phone:

Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS)

iOS: Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)

Android: Cloud To Device Messaging (C2DM)



Communications: Cloud-initiated

!Raaawww



Mobile Services

Stand up a data-driven app FAST Push notifications to any device Schedule notifications from the App No security goo (handled internally)


CDN

Storage

Blobs

Media Services

ApplicationServices

DataServices

Networking



Storing Content

Blob Storage is the standard now Scales across instances Replicated Map domain to storage account CDN benefits Security and shared links



Scaling Out Media Access

Service

Corporate Domain

Client

BlobContainer

HTTP

Azure Storage

BlobContainer

BlobContainer

Azure Storage

CDNCache

CDNCache

CDNCache



Blob Storage Integrity

Windows Azure Storage

Blob Container

Service

validatesignature

WindowsAzure

MD5Hash +

MD5Hash +



Blob Storage Shared Access Signatures

Service

Public Blob Access

createupdatedelete

read

Service

Public Container

Access

createupdatedeleteread

list

Service

Private Container

createupdatedeleteread

list

list

Service

Private Container

readaccessfor limited timewithsharedaccesskey

sharedaccess

policy

Browser Client

Shared AccessSignature (SAS)

>1 hour requiresauthenticationheader in request(no browser)



Blob Storage Recommendations

Store content in blobs in lieu of drives Set metadata explicitly for best results Secure access accordingly

From JavaScript can lease a shared key No need to embed keys in the JS file

Always chunk blobs for best performance



References

Conference resources: http://michelebusta.com

See my snapboards: Currently at the alpha site:

http://snapboardalpha.cloudapp.net/michelebusta Will move these to snapboard.com/michelebusta when we go

live on the main site (SOON watch my blog for announcement) Contact me:

[email protected] @michelebusta

COME VISIT OUR BOOTH! LET’S HAVE A CONVERSATION!

http://michelebusta.com/

http://snapboardalpha.cloudapp.net/michelebusta

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