What’s new in Azure SDK 1.3(and 1.4)

Peter HimschootMicrosoft Regional Director BeluxU2U Trainer/Architect

http://blogs.u2u.be/Peter

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

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/cloud/docs/The-Economics-of-the-Cloud.pdf

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

Compute StorageManagement

Windows Azure Compute

• Windows Server 2008 x64 (R2)• .NET Framework – 3.5 SP1 and 4.0• Supports Full Trust• Fabric manages role lifecycle

Worker RoleWeb 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

Compute StorageManagement

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 Rolequeue

Worker Role

Worker Role

Web 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

Database

Business AnalyticsReporting Data Sync

Windows Azure AppFabric

ServiceBus Access

Control

Services over the internet

• How to set up a service listener ?• IP address ?• Transport protocol ?• Allow inbound connections ?

Client Service?Firewall

FirewallDynamic IP

NAT

Relaying Messages

BookStoreService Layer

Orders(WCF)

Service Bus

Order ServicePlease Here I am !

2 13 4Place Order

LocalAzure

Windows Azure AppFabric

ServiceBus Access

Control

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

DEMOWindows 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• <sites> configuration

• Allows for multiple sites/virtual applications

DEMORunning multiple sites in IIS using one Web Role

Startup tasks

• Install some extra required library/component

• Can also run elevated

<Startup>   <Task commandLine="StartupTasks\installmvc.cmd"         executionContext="elevated"          taskType="simple“   /> </Startup>

Startup task options

• Elevation• Limited• Elevated (aka Run as System)

• taskType• Simple• Background• Foreground

DEMOInstalling MVC3 using startup tasks

Startup Task Plugin Model

• ServiceDefinition allows custom modules

• Role Modules• Contain startup tasks, endpoints, etc…• .csplugin extension

• Installed in

<Imports> <Import moduleName="Connect" /></Imports>

\Windows Azure SDK\v1.*\bin\plugins

DEMOBuilding your own plugin

Remote Desktop Access

• Install additional stuff manually

• Debug installation problems

• Configure IIS, …

• Easily enabled with VS2010

Changing RDP Configuration

DEMORemote Desktop Access

Windows Azure Connect

• Connect Azure services to your resources• Using IPsec

Role Group Role Group

InstanceInstanceInstanceInstanceInstanceInstance

Examples on using Azure Connect

• Connect Azure WebRole to local SQL Server

• Join Azure instances to your domain

• Remote Debugging

• Share Folders

• …

DEMOUsing Azure Connect

Intelli-Trace?

Your code’s flight recorder

DEMOUsing 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

DEMOSQL Reporting

Windows Phone 7 and the Cloud

• A match made in heaven

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/

DEMOA 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 domainwww.contoso.com

DNS resource record forwww.contoso.com

Traffic Manager Policy

Traffic Manager domainContoso.ctp.trafficmgr.com

Load Balance Method

Monitoring

Hosted Service 1

Hosted Service 2

Performance Policy

Client

Closest?

HS1 HS2 HS3

20ms 240ms 6ms

Performance Times Table

Failover Policy

Client

Highest availableService?

HS1

HS2

HS3

HS3

Primary

Standby 1

Standby 2

Standby 3

Round Robin Policy

Client

Next?

HS1 HS2 HS3

Prepare for the future!

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