Websites in the Cloud

Brian Blanchard – Chief Architect / CIO - HyperVize

Web Roles

• In this session- What is a web role?- What can we do with them?- Basic role configuration.- Local debugging.

What is the web role?

A web role hosts an IIS based web site or service.• Supports HTTP and HTTPS and certificates• Automatically load balanced by Azure• Can be internal only, but usually public facing• Runs on IIS7• Usually runs an ASP.NET site.

DevFabric

The DevFabric is a local simulation of the real fabric and fabric controller.

• Based on 90% of the real fabric code• Uses a local SQL instance to simulate storage• Only way to debug your application• Use the DevFabric UI to watch your processes

DevFabric Icon

DevFabric UI

DevStorage UI

Are we running in the fabric?

Hello cloud.

Debugging locally

• You can debug locally just like a normal ASP.NET application.

• Full support for multiple instances.

Debugging in the cloud?

No. No debug for you.

Looking at configuration.

• Configuration is handled by two files.– ServiceDefinition.csdef– ServiceConfiguration.cscfg

Service Specific

Role Specific

Service Definition

Service Configuration

GUI

Double click on Role Name in Azure Project

Settings

Certificates

Endpoints

Hello Cloud

• demo

Deploying to the cloud

• We can deploy from the portal or from script• VS builds two files.

– Encrypted package of your code– Your config file

• You must create an Azure account, then a service, and then you deploy your code.

• Can take up to 20 minutes – (which is better than six months)

Deploying to the cloud

Q & A