What’s new in Azure SDK 1.3 (and 1.4) Peter Himschoot Microsoft Regional Director Belux U2U Trainer/Architect

Agenda Introducing Windows Azure Azure Compute & Storage SQL Azure Azure AppFabric What is new in Azure? New Management Portal New VM Role Startup Tasks & Startup Plugins Azure Connect Traffic Manager Development stuff

Introducing Azure FOR RENT

What is Azure (for managers, CTO’s) Pay for what you use No more heavy initial investment in hardware Easy peak handling (elastic scalability) Need more? Just a minute! There you are! Needs less? No problem! Better value for money Bulk buying = less € per unit (hardware, electricity, …) Use existing skillsets of your people Infrastructure Development

What is Azure? (for infrastructure) Platform for running your applications Easy to scale Fault-tolerant Easy deployment & management Performance counters, logs, etc… On a platform you already know Windows Server 2008 (R2)

What is Azure? (for developers) Platform for building applications that are Scalable Fault-tolerant (CPU & Storage) Develop with what you already know!.NET, Java, PHP, … Focus on development, not infrastructure Extra support API’s, such as storage

Windows Azure Components

Windows Azure

Windows Azure Compute Windows Server 2008 x64 (R2).NET Framework – 3.5 SP1 and 4.0 Supports Full Trust Fabric manages role lifecycle Worker Role Web Role

Web role Web farm that handles request from the internet Runs in IIS 7 Hosts ASP.NET XML based configuration of IIS7 Integrated managed pipeline Supports SSL Windows Azure code access security policy for managed code Storage services Public Internet LB Web Role

Worker role Scheduled task running in the background Like Windows Service Can read requests from queue in storage Can have internal and external endpoints Storage services Public Internet Worker Role

Windows Azure

Windows Azure Storage Blobs – Provide a simple interface for storing named files along with metadata for the file Tables – Provide structured storage. A Table is a set of entities, which contain a set of properties Queues – Provide reliable storage and delivery of messages for an application Drives – Provides durable NTFS volumes for Windows Azure applications to use

Loosely Coupled Workflow with Queues Web Role Worker Role queue Worker Role Web Role

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network Distributes your data to over 24 (and counting) servers Site automatically gets redirected to local server Better handling of high-load scenarios

SQL Azure Business Analytics Reporting Data Sync

Windows Azure AppFabric

Services over the internet How to set up a service listener ? IP address ? Transport protocol ? Allow inbound connections ? ClientService ? Firewall Dynamic IP NAT

Relaying Messages BookStore Service Layer BookStore Service Layer Orders (WCF) Orders (WCF) Service Bus Order Service Please Order Service Please Here I am ! 2134 Place Order Local Azure

Windows Azure AppFabric

Azure AppFabric Access Control Service Use claims based security Integrate identity into your website Windows Live ID Facebook Google Use claims based security with REST

Cloud Development == Familiar Development The cloud runs the.NET platform and IIS Familiar technologies can be used: ASP.NET (Web Forms and MVC) WCF Silverlight PHP, Java, … Compute Emulator: “The cloud on your desktop” Complete offline Azure Fabric simulation Storage Emulator: Complete offline Azure Storage simulation Requires SQL Server (Express)

WHAT IS NEW IN AZURE SDK 1.3 & 1.4

Windows Azure Management Portal Completely redesigned using Silverlight

DEMO Windows Azure Management Portal Walk-through

New Role: the VM Role Easy migration of existing WS2008 applications Requires building a (bootable).VHD image With Windows Server 2008 R2 installed (Ent/Std) Anything else you need Requires Windows Azure Integration Components So the Fabric Controller can talk to it Then sysprep & upload it to Azure

Full Internet Information Server support No more hosted web core! Still available for backward compatibility Automatically enabled for new projects configuration Allows for multiple sites/virtual applications

DEMO Running multiple sites in IIS using one Web Role

Startup tasks Install some extra required library/component Can also run elevated <Task commandLine="StartupTasks\installmvc.cmd" executionContext="elevated" taskType="simple“ />

Startup task options Elevation Limited Elevated (aka Run as System) taskType Simple Background Foreground

DEMO Installing MVC3 using startup tasks

Startup Task Plugin Model ServiceDefinition allows custom modules Role Modules Contain startup tasks, endpoints, etc….csplugin extension Installed in \Windows Azure SDK\v1.*\bin\plugins

DEMO Building your own plugin

Remote Desktop Access Install additional stuff manually Debug installation problems Configure IIS, … Easily enabled with VS2010

Changing RDP Configuration

DEMO Remote Desktop Access

Windows Azure Connect Connect Azure services to your resources Using IPsec Role Group Instance

Examples on using Azure Connect Connect Azure WebRole to local SQL Server Join Azure instances to your domain Remote Debugging Share Folders …

DEMO Using Azure Connect

Intelli-Trace?

Your code’s flight recorder

DEMO Using Intelli-Trace with Azure

SQL Azure Reporting Similar to SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 Create reports on SQL Azure databases Publish reports locally or in Azure Web role

DEMO SQL Reporting

Windows Phone 7 and the Cloud A match made in heaven Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

DEMO A simple Windows Phone 7 app & the cloud

Windows Azure Traffic Manager Distributes traffic over similar hosted services Same of different data centers Policy based Performance Failover Round Robin User Company domain Company domain DNS resource record for DNS resource record for Traffic Manager Policy Traffic Manager domain Contoso.ctp.trafficmgr.com Traffic Manager domain Contoso.ctp.trafficmgr.com Load Balance Method Monitoring Hosted Service 1 Hosted Service 2

Performance Policy Client Closest? HS1 HS2 HS3 20ms240ms 6ms Performance Times Table

Failover Policy Client Highest available Service? Highest available Service? HS1 HS2 HS3 Primary Standby 1 Standby 2 Standby 3

Round Robin Policy Client Next? HS1 HS2 HS3

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