Windows Azure intro session by Mike Martin. Includes tips, cloud models, the different services provided by Windows Azure. Contains info on websites, web/worker roles and how you can deploy and work with staging environments. Check out the video on http://www.youtube.com/e2partners

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Mike Martin
Architect
MEET Member
Crew Member of Azug
Windows Azure Insider
Windows Azure MVP
@Techmike2KX
mike.martin@csps.be
http://techmike2kx.wordpress.com

4. Cloud
Computing
Patterns

5. IT CAPACITY
Not Enough
Potential
Power
business loss
Allocated
IT-capacities
Load
Forecast
Too Much
Power
Wasted
capacity
Actual Load
TIME

6. CLMs
IT demand
Compute capacity
Ticket sales open
Ticket sales open
Concert ticket web site
Time

10. Public Cloud Platforms
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Private Cloud
Platforms
Microsoft
Dynamic
infrastructure
Toolkit for System
Center (Hyper-V
Cloud, AppFabric
Server)
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
For Scalable Web Apps
For Data-Driven Business
Apps
For Collaboration Apps
Hosters
Dynamic
DataCenter Toolkit
for Hosters (HyperV Cloud)
Windows Azure Platform
Dynamics CRM / xRM
Online
Office 365
Windows Live
Hosters
VMWare vSphere
(ESX, vCenter)
VMWare vCloud Initiative
(ESX, vCenter)
Others
Amazon
Amazon Web Services Web Services
GoGrid Cloud Hosting,
RackSPace, others
Google
AppEngine
Saleforce.com
Force.com
Google Docs

13. Virtualization
Identity
Development
Data
Platform
DevOps
and mgmt

16. vpn

19. shared
1

20. shared
2

21. SHARED INSTANCES

22. 2
reserved
RESERVED INSTANCE

23. 2
reserved
RESERVED INSTANCE

29. All features of a worker role + IIS 7, 7.5 or IIS 8.0*
ASP
.NET 3.5 SP1, 4.0 or 4.5* – 64bit
Hosts
Webforms or MVC
FastCGI applications (e.g. PHP)
Multiple Websites
Http(s)
Web/Worker Hybrid
Can optionally implement RoleEntryPoint
*for Windows Server 2012

33. Web Role 1
instance #3
Request
Browser
Response
L
B
Worker Role 1
instance #2
instance #3
instance #1
instance #1
instance #0
instance #0
Database
Scale up
and down
Communications via
Queues and Tables

35. Compute
Instance Size
CPU
Memory
Extra Small
Shared
768 MB
Small
1
1.75 GB
Medium
2
3.5 GB
Large
4
7 GB
Extra Large
8
14 GB
A6
4
28 GB
A7
8
56 GB
own

37. Server Rack 1
Server Rack 2

42. Web Role 1
instance #3
Request
Browser
Response
L
B
Worker Role 1
instance #2
instance #3
instance #1
instance #1
instance #0
instance #0
Database
Scale up
and down
Communications via
Queues and Tables

43. The binaries and definition
(csdef) file are zipped into
service package file

44. Web Role Inst #0
Web Role Inst #1
Worker Role Inst #0
Worker Role Inst #1
Update Domain 0
Update Domain 1
Worker Role Inst #2
Update Domain 2

45. http://<name>.cloudapp.net
Production URL
Staging URL
http://<guid>.cloudapp.net
L
B
L
B
Production
Staging

52. VM with persistent drive

53. VM with persistent drive

54. VM with persistent drive

55. VM with persistent drive

56. > 500 miles

70. Single Database
!
Three Replicas
Replica 1
DB
Replica 2
Replica 3
Replica 4
Single Primary

73. User
Federation joins it all together
Name: Fred
Password: *****
Age: 107
Country: Japan

74. http://socialsts.net/

76. Building blocks for distributed services
 Access control
 Network connectivity
 Connect on-premise and Cloud applications
 Caching
Windows Azure Services
Windows Azure management
Portal
On-premise development
Blobs, tables,
queues
APIs
On-premise management
Visual Studio, Azure SDK etc
Windows Admin
Server Tools