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Maarten Balliauw – RealDolmenE-mail: [email protected]

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WHO AM I?

Maarten Balliauw Antwerp, Belgium www.realdolmen.com Focus on web

ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Azure, VSTS, … MVP ASP.NET

Interested in interoperability PHPExcel, PHPLinq, Windows Azure SDK for PHP, ...

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AGENDA

Cloud computing? Windows Azure? Application architecture Using PHP with Windows Azure Wordpress Resources Q&A


What’s in the cloud?CLOUD COMPUTING


WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING ?

What is cloud computing ? Offering infrastructure, platform and software as a service

over the internet to a global market. Move on-premises management of non functional IT

assets to a provider. Difference from traditional hostings

Sold on demand “pay as you grow” Elastic scalability Service is fully managed by the provider End user centric (IW or developer) Strong focus on integration (cloud-cloud or cloud-on-

premises)


DEFINITION OF CLOUD (NIST)

On-demand self service Standardized access Location independant resource pooling Rapid elasticity Pay per use


IT AS A SERVICE

Private(On-Premise)

Infrastructure

(as a Service)

Platform(as a

Service)

Storage

Server HW

Networking

Servers

Databases

Virtualization

Runtimes

Applications

Security & Integration

Storage

Server HW

Networking

Servers

Databases

Virtualization

Runtimes

Applications


Storage

Server HW

Networking

Servers

Databases

Virtualization

Runtimes

Applications


You

man

age

Managed by vendor

Managed by vendor

You

man

age

You

man

age


What’s in the cloud?WINDOWS AZURE


THE WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM

Windows Azure SQL Azure Windows Azure platform AppFabric Microsoft Codename “Dallas”

Developer tools


AZURE SERVICE PLATFORM

Windows Azure is an Operating System as a Service for the Cloud.

Compute – auto-provisioning 64-bit application containers in Windows Server VMs; supports a wide range of application models

Storage – highly available distributed table, blob, queue, & cache

Languages – .NET 3.5 (C#, VB.NET, etc.), IronRuby, IronPython, PHP, native Win32 code

SQL Azure is a Relational Database for the Cloud.

RDBMS – Tables, Views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Triggers, ...

Programmability – Managed ADO.NET data access, native ODBC, support for PHP

Tools – SQLCMD and the SQL Azure Database account portal

AppFabric is the glue between on-premises and the cloud.

Service Bus – connectivity to on-premises applications; secure, federated fire-wall friendly Web services messaging intermediary; durable & discoverable queues

Identity Management – rules-driven federated identity; AD federation; claims-based authorization

Live Services is a building block within the Azure Services Platform.

Live Mesh

Live ID

Live Contacts

Live …

Live Services


WINDOWS AZURE

Flexible application hosting Lights-out service management

Provide code & service model, hit ENTER

Storage at massive scale

Compute StorageManagement

There’s an SDK for this: http://phpazure.codeplex.com


WINDOWS AZURE


SQL AZURE

Relational database as a service Highly available, automatically maintained

Extension of the SQL Server Data Platform

Database

Business AnalyticsReporting Data Sync

There’s a driver for this: http://sqlsrvphp.codeplex.com


SQL AZURE

Relational database, provided as a service Highly symmetrical development and tooling experience (use

TDS protocol and T-SQL) Highly scaled out, on commodity hardware Built on the SQL Server technology foundation

Beyond “hosted database” High availability, DB provisioning, and DB management are

provided by the service Pay for what you use


WINDOWS AZURE APPFABRIC

Secure connections between services Across organizational boundaries

Claims-based access control

ServiceBus

AccessControl

There’s an SDK for this: http://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com/


WINDOWS AZURE APPFABRIC - SERVICE BUS

Securely connect applications Over the internet Across any network topology Across organizational boundaries

Primary application patterns Eventing:

Notify applications and/or devices Service Remoting:

Securely project on-premises services out to the cloud Tunneling:

App-to-app communication with NAT/Firewall traversal


SERVICE BUS OVERVIEW


MICROSOFT CODENAME “DALLAS”

Content brokerage and discovery platform Available as a CTP at commercial launch

Microsoft Codename “Dallas”

Information Services




DEVELOPER TOOLS

Development Use your favourite editor

Local debugging Windows with IIS 7.x Visual Studio Windows Azure tools for Eclipse

Packaging Windows Azure SDK

Deployment Any browser

I’m whining for this one!


What’s in the cloud?APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE


TYPICAL ARCHITECTURE ON AZURE

Windows Azure Storage (Blob, Table, Queue)

VIP Web

RoleWorker

Role

Service Unavailable


WEB + WORKER ROLE SERVICE MODEL

Windows Azure Storage (Blob, Table, Queue)

Worker RoleWeb

Role

VIP

Web Role

Worker Role

Worker Role

Worker Role

Worker RoleService Still Available


What’s in the cloud?USING PHP WITH WINDOWS AZURE


USING PHP WITH WINDOWS AZURE

It’s all about…

Running PHP Code in Windows Azure

Eclipse Tooling Build, Test, Deploy PHP Projects Create New or Use Existing PHP Projects

Scaling PHP Apps

Using Cloud Storage from PHP Using Windows Azure Storage Using SQL Azure


RUNNING PHP IN WINDOWS AZURE

How to Do It Host in Web role (like .NET) Supply PHP runtime Point to runtime via FastCGI

configuration in Web.config Web.roleConfig

Eclipse Tooling athttp://windowsazure4e.org does the above for you

PHP Web RoleInstance 2

VIP

Load

Bala

nce

r

PHP Web RoleInstance 1


PHP + CLOUD STORAGE

PHPWeb Role

VIP

Load

Bala

nce

r

Windows Azure Storage

SQL Azure

PHP App

Windows Azure Platform

On-Premis

e


PHP WITH WINDOWS AZURE STORAGE

Windows Azure SDK for PHP at http://phpazure.codeplex.com

PHP programming model for Windows Azure Storage

Features PHP classes for Blobs, Tables & Queues Store PHP sessions in Table Storage File system wrapper for Blob Storage


PHP WITH SQL AZURE

SQL Server Driver for PHP at http://sqlsrvphp.codeplex.com/

Supports PHP access to SQL Azure

Features Choose between SQL Server and SQL Azure by changing

connection string Use from on-premise apps or in Windows Azure


PHP WITH APPFABRIC

AppFabric SDK for PHP developers athttp://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com/

Supports PHP on service bus and access control

Features Expose on-premise apps on an external endpoint without

opening firewall Pub/sub scenario’s …

http://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com/



What’s in the cloud?WORDPRESSFinally!


WORDPRESS

Blogging engine Widely used Easy installation Gazillion plugins Huge community around it Free and open-source


BUT...

Runs on top of MySQL Has no database abstraction layer So: only runs on MySQL Windows Azure has Table Storage and SQL Azure

I feel lots of work coming…



THERE ARE WAYS AROUND!

Easy way out Wordpress on Windows Azure MySQL on-premise / at other hoster

Medium way out Wordpress on Windows Azure MySQL as well

Hard way out Wordpress on Windows Azure MySQL out, SQL Azure in


THE EASY WAY OUT

PHPWeb Role

VIP

Load

Bala

nce

r


MySQL

Windows Azure PlatformOn-Premise / hosted


THE EASY WAY OUT

Fresh Windows Azure project in Eclipse Fresh Wordpress.org download Point wp-config.php to some MySQL server Package & deploy


THE MEDIUM WAY OUT

PHPWeb Role

VIP

Load

Bala

nce

r



WorkerRolerunningMySQL


THE MEDIUM WAY OUT

Fresh Windows Azure project in Eclipse Fresh Wordpress.org download “Windows Azure MySQL PHP Solution Accelerator”

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/winazuremysqlphp

Some configuration Some anger Some configuration Point wp-config.php to the above MySQL server Package & deploy


SO...

Yes, you can run MySQL on Windows Azure!

More “solution accelerators”: MySQL

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/winazuremysqlphp Memcached

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/winazurememcached MediaWiki

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/winazuremediawiki Tomcat

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/winazuretomcat


THE HARD WAY OUT

PHPWeb Role

VIP

Load

Bala

nce

r


SQL Azure



THE HARD WAY OUT

Fresh Windows Azure project in Eclipse Fresh Wordpress.org download Point wp-config.php to SQL Azure Package & deploy Fail!

There’s no SQL Server / SQL Azure support in Wordpress, remember?


HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED AT WORDPRESS?

MySQL queries all over the place! “Data layer” (wp-db.php) = very thin

Raw MySQL queries passed from app to db Logging Some other stuff

That’s nowhere near a database abstraction...


STRATEGIC OPTIONS

Required: Re-build wp-db.php using SQL Server Driver for PHP

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/PHP-Driver.aspx

Options... Re-write every single query in Wordpress

Future proof? Insane!

Build a query translation tool, rewriting queries on-the-fly Future proof! Insane!


HERE’S WHAT WE DID...

Hooks in Wordpress Wp-contents/db.php Wp-includes/wp-db.php

Strategy Create wp-db.php class on top of SQL Server Driver for PHP

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/PHP-Driver.aspx Create custom DB schema, compatible with SQL Server Build a query translation tool, rewriting queries on-the-fly

Someone at Microsoft had this laying around


BUT THERE’S ALSO... RESOURCES

Resources Images, other file uploads, ...

Normally stored on server disk But this may not survive on Windows Azure...

Solution Plugin using Windows Azure SDK for PHP Storing everything on Blob Storage Serving everything from Blob Storage

There’s a CDN available!



What’s in the cloud?DEMO TIMEIf the Internet works...


What’s in the cloud?RESOURCES


RESOURCES Windows Azure

http://www.azure.com

Windows Azure SDK for PHPhttp://phpazure.codeplex.com

SQL Server Driver for PHPhttp://sqlsrvphp.codeplex.com

AppFabric SDK for PHP developershttp://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com

PDChttp://microsoftpdc.com

PHP Architect December 2009 issuehttp://www.phparch.com

Steve Marxhttp://blog.smarx.com/

Clemens Vastershttp://vasters.com/clemensv/

Simon Guesthttp://simonguest.com/blogs/smguest

My bloghttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be/category/Azure.aspx

RealDolmen blogs is running on Azure!http://www.realdolmenblogs.com

http://www.azure.com/

http://phpazure.codeplex.com/



http://sqlsrvphp.codeplex.com/






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http://www.phparch.com/

http://blog.smarx.com/

http://vasters.com/clemensv/

http://simonguest.com/blogs/smguest

http://simonguest.com/blogs/smguest

http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/category/Azure.aspx

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AZUG.BE – AZURE USER GROUP BELGIUM

Focus on the Azure Services Platform Community-driven Focus on architecture

And development And the business value of Azure

www.azug.be

http://www.azug.be/


AND ONE MORE ANNOUNCEMENT...

Get a free t-shirt at the Microsoft booth!


BEFORE SKIPPING TO Q&A...

Is the source code available? No, not at this time.

Do I need Visual Studio / Eclipse? Only for local debugging.

Do I need Windows & the Windows Azure SDK? Only for packaging. I’ll keep whining to make this available on Linux.


QUESTIONS, POSSIBLY ANSWERS…

?Maarten Balliauw – RealDolmen

Blog: http://blog.maartenballiauw.beTwitter: @maartenballiauw


THANK YOU!

Maarten Balliauwhttp://blog.maartenballiauw.be

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