TAKING IT TO THE CLOUD WITH WINDOWS AZURE

Cory FowlerIntermediate Web Developer

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WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING ?

“Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a service over the Internet”

-- Wikipedia

WHY IS IT SO GREAT?

Agility

Centralization

Cost

Reliability

Scalability

Security

Sustainability

Maintenance

WHAT IS WINDOWS AZURE?

AppFabric

Dallas

SQL Azure

Windows Identity Foundation

Storage Services

Windows Azure Drive

Microsoft Pinpoint

Blob Storage

Queue Storage

Table Storage

Access Control Service

Powershell Commandlets

Azure Management API

Enterprise Service Bus

Interoperability

Sync

Open Data Protocol

WHY WOULD I USE AZURE?

• Familiar Development Environment

• Infrastructure Ease

• Reliability

• Cost Benefits

WHAT’S IT GOING TO COST ME?

Core CostsStorage ServicesDisk Usage

Transactions

Data Transfer

Compute Time

Compute Size

SQL Azure App FabricSimultaneous

Staging Environment

YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE MY CLOUD!

o Visual Studio 2008?o ASP.NET 3.5 SP1o Windows Azure SDK

o Visual Studio 2010?o Windows Azure SDK

o WCF Activationo Enable ASP.NET and/or CGI in IISo Set up a Database for Storage Service Emulatoro Configure the Database for Storage Services Platform

Installer – Does Everything for You!

PREPARING YOUR ENVIRONMENT

PREPARING YOUR ENVIRONMENT (CON’T)

Enabling WCF Activation Enabling ASP.NET & CGI4. Microsoft .NET Framework

1. WCF HTTP Activation2. WCF Non-HTTP

Activation

4. Internet Information Services

5. World Wide Web Services6. Application Development

1. ASP.NET2. CGI

Turn On/Off Windows Features

DEMO 1: SETTING UP STORAGE SERVICES

http://is.gd/bXgmC

WE’RE ON A ROLE!

DEMO 2: CREATING A WEB ROLE

DEMO 3: CREATING A WORKER ROLE

DEMO 4: WORKING WITH STORAGE SERVICES

Blob StorageQueue StorageTable Storage

DEMO 5: DEPLOYING YOUR APP

MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION

Tools Visual Studio Web Express - tinyurl.com/GetVSExpress

Windows Azure Tools - tinyurl.com/GetAzureTools

Knowledge My Blog – tinyurl.com/GetStartedWithAzure

Account Windows Azure Offers -

tinyurl.com/AzureOffers Website Spark – http://tinyurl.com/WebSpark

HOW DO I GET STARTED?

Azure Information http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure http://windows.azure.com http://www.delicious.com/syntaxc4 http://blog.syntaxc4.net

API http://tinyurl.com/AzureManagedLibrary http://tinyurl.com/AzureOSSAPIs

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