Slides of Microsoft Portugal "Developer Tech Refresh" event held in September 2013. Mostly a demo-based session.

1. Power your Website with
Windows AzureJoão Pedro Martins (jota) - jota@create.pt

2. • Windows Azure Web Sites:
• Main Features
• Platform Architecture
• Demo: “the demo everybody makes”
• Demo: “the more complicated demo where Murphy might strike”
• Demo: “the dns custom domain demo”
• Demo: “the services demo”
• Demo: “the kudu demo”
• Plaform Scaling, use cases and pricing
Agenda

3. Azure Web Sites Feature Overview

4. Cloud First by Design
SQL based configuration
Dynamic provisioning of sites on demand
Network Storage (Azure xDrive, SMB, NAS, SAN)
Stateless web servers (no synchronization required)
How does it work?

5. Windows Azure Web Sites Architecture

6. HTTP WebWorker
WebWorker
WebWorker
Frontend
(IISARR)
SQL Azure VHD blobs
SQL Azure / MySQL / Mongo
APIendpoint
Publish
endpoint
FileServer
WebWorker
Serving HTTP(s) Traffic – Inactive Site (‘cold’ site)
http://site1..../

7. HTTP Frontend
(IISARR)
SQL Azure VHD blobs
SQL Azure
APIendpoint
Publish
endpoint
FileServer
Serving HTTP(s) Traffic – Inactive Site (‘cold’ site)
http://site1..../
WebWorker
site1site1

8. HTTP WebWorker
WebWorker
WebWorker
SQL Azure VHD blobs
SQL Azure
APIendpoint
Publish
endpoint
FileServer
Serving HTTP(s) Traffic – Active Site (‘hot’ site)
http://site1..../
site1
WebWorker
Frontend
(IISARR)

9. … but how easy is it? (a true story)

10. Web Matrix
demo

11. • Create a site in WebMatrix using one of the existing templates
• Apply a theme using Twitter Bootstrap
• Migrate blogposts to it from another blog provider
• … how simple are these scenarios.
What did we see?

12. Continuous integration, test
and deployment
demo

13. • Start with a working local web site
• Configure a Azure WebSite and publish to it
• Add project to source control
• See the automated builds
• See the automated deployments
• (much more to see here)
• See the automated test runs
What did we see?

14. Deployment Pipeline

15. Custom Domains
demo

16. • Configuration of CNAME and A record including validation
• Configure web site to use custom domain name
• Access web site using custom domain
• Note: not available for Free websites.
What did we see?

17. Host wcf services in web site
demo

18. • Expose WCF web services in Azure Web Site
• Programattically access SQL Azure DB (one of many ways!)
• Consume WCF services from Win8 app to display the data locally
What did we see?

19. Kudu
demo

20. • Debug and trace information
• Console to browse on site’s contents
• Transparent
What did we see?

21. • Scale Up
• Scale Out
• Up to 10 instances (VMs)
• Autoscaling (currently) configurable based on CPU usage
Scaling – Standard Instances

22. • Optimizing cost
• Optimize response times
Auto - Scale

23. • Over 1.8b hits per month.
• Over 115K sites hosted.
• 99.9% monthly average
SLA
• Even with single website
instance!
Service performance
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
99,5
99,55
99,6
99,65
99,7
99,75
99,8
99,85
99,9
99,95
100
2012/07 2012/08 2012/09 2012/10 2012/11 2012/12 2013/01
Monthly SLA
Availablity Latency

24. Use cases - Customer adoption
Over 80k Subscriptions Since June’12

25. Pricing

26. • Using Web Matrix to create and customize a blog from the gallery and migrate
contents to it
• Integration of Team Foundation Server for building, testing and deploying
solutions
• Set up custom domain names
• Expose WCF web services in web site and consume from Windows 8
• Kudo & diagnostics
Summary

27. Why Using Windows Azure Web Sites
Scalable, secure and flexible platform
for building and hosting powerful
web applications.

28. • A cobrir todos os temas do evento relacionados com Windows
Azure
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• Nome, telefone, email
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29. Obrigado! Questões?
João Pedro Martins (jota) - jota@create.pt