Drupal in the cloud with Windows Azure

Drupal in the Cloud
Jim Salem
Josh Koenig
Pierre Couzy
#drupalinthecloud
Brought to you by Adam Hansen

Azure & Drupal(work in progress)
Pierre Couzy – Microsoft
pierre.couzy@microsoft.com

Azure - where

Azure - what
Data Center
Browser
Hosted Service
Worker Service
Worker Role
LB
Tables
CDN
Storage
Web Site
(ASPX, ASMX, WCF)
Web Site
(ASPX, ASMX, WCF)
Web Role
Queue
LB
Blobs

Quick facts
Whoisworking on this ?
Microsoft & Commerce Guys
Wherecan I findit ?
On d.o
Whencan I use it ?
Shouldbecompletebeforesummer
How can I test on Azure ?
Try « azure one monthpass » in yoursearchengine

Provisioning the web farm
Azure basic deployment unit is a Role
Application package (drupal in our case)
Size of machines
Number of machines
Firewall configuration
A drupal package is
PHP runtime & configuration
Drupal code
Deployment-specific settings

Relational data go to Sql Azure
Highlyavailable, pay per volume
10$/month/Gb
Currentimplementation uses Sql Azure for
Sessions,
Queues,
Caches,
Locks,
Fields
Some of thesewill change

If you *really* wantMySql on Azure
VIP
VIP
VIP
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
M
S
S
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL
Doable, but you’ll manage a lot of moving parts. Seehttp://bit.ly/93Jgib

Other content goes to Blob storage
Highlyscalable
Stream wrapper API available for PHP
Specialcredits to DamZ for ironingthis
Some concepts differfromfilesystem
2-level structure (container+blob)
Extended Metadataavailable
Security isdonedifferently

Using blob storage

Performance tuning
You can use the usual suspects
APC/Wincache for local caching
Redis/Memcache for distributedcaching
There’salso a CDN in Azure
Untilyesterday, hooked up to blob storage
Now usable on Azure Roles (web farms)
Will honourcaching headers fromdynamic content
Understandshttps
Understandsquery string

Where are wenow ?
Sql Azure driver : done
Blob storage module : in progress
Needs to plug in the CDN
Leverage the authorizationmechanism
Deployment & updates : justbeginning
Azure has instant-switchbetweenstaging & prod
Plus hot database backups
We’relookingatotherprojects to help

What did you think?
Locate this session on the DCC website:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions
Click the “Take the Survey” link.
Thanks!

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Drupal in the cloud with Windows Azure

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