Real World Azure - IT Pros

TechNet Events Presents:Real World Azure
clint edmonson | architect evangelist | www.notsotrivial.net
shawntravers| it pro evangelist | blogs.technet.com/shawnt

This is Jim
Cloud Computing

Jim has many questions about cloud computing
Cloud Computing

The more he reads, the more confused he gets
Cloud Computing

“What is Cloud Computing?”
Cloud Computing

“What can I use the Cloud for?”
Cloud Computing

“What is Microsoft’s roadmap in this space?”
Cloud Computing

“Is this going to eat my job?”
Cloud Computing

“Am I prepared for when my boss asks me about this?”
Cloud Computing

Define Cloud Computing
Break down the parts
Highlight the implementation of a Real World Azure scenario

Jim has heard all the buzzwords

Service Oriented Architecture

Rich Internet Applications

Software as a Service

Software + Services

Are any of these cloud computing?

No. They are Styles of applications.

These styles can work in the cloud, but they are not cloud computing

Where do your applications “live”?

On Premises
Hosted
Cloud
Vendor’s Problem

S+S Chapter

“Packaged”
Application
An application that I buy “off the shelf” and run myself
Heads in the Cloud, Feet on the Ground
Hosted
“Packaged”
An application that I buy “off the shelf” and then run at a hoster
“Packaged”
using cloud
An application that I buy “off the shelf”, that is hosted using cloud platform
“Software as a Service”
A hosted application that I buy from a vendor
Buy
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
An application that I develop and run myself
Hosted
“Home Built”
An application that I develop myself, but run at a hoster
“Home Built”
using cloud
An application that I develop myself, that is hosted using cloud platform
“Platform as a Service”
A vendor hosted development and runtime environment
Build
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud

“Packaged”
Application
Big Pharmaceutical Example
Hosted
“Packaged”
“Packaged”
using cloud
Buy
ERP
“Too costly to run this myself, but I’ve made too many customizations”
CRM
Email
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
Hosted
“Home Built”
“Home Built”
using cloud
HR System
Molecule Research
Build
Clinical Trial
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud

“Packaged”
Application
Hosted
“Packaged”
“Packaged”
using cloud
Buy
ERP
CRM
“CRM and Email are commodity services – They have no customizations, and it’s cheaper for someone else to run these”
Email
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
Hosted
“Home Built”
“Home Built”
using cloud
HR System
Molecule Research
Build
Clinical Trial
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud

“Packaged”
Application
Hosted
“Packaged”
“Packaged”
using cloud
Buy
ERP
CRM
Email
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
Hosted
“Home Built”
“Home Built”
using cloud
“I can’t afford to maintain this old HR application written in VB – it’s driving me mad!”
HR System
“…but due to regulatory issues, I cannot store my HR data off-premise”
Molecule Research
Build
Clinical Trial
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud

“Packaged”
Application
Hosted
“Packaged”
“Packaged”
using cloud
Buy
ERP
CRM
Email
HR System
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
Hosted
“Home Built”
“Home Built”
using cloud
“I wish I had access to cheaper compute and storage when I need it”
Molecule Research
Build
Clinical Trial
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud

“Packaged”
Application
Hosted
“Packaged”
“Packaged”
using cloud
Buy
ERP
CRM
Email
HR System
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
Hosted
“Home Built”
“Home Built”
using cloud
Molecule Research
Build
“THIS is where I want to spend my IT resources – I’m going to double down on this application!”
Clinical Trial
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud

Challenges and Concerns with Cloud Computing

Security

“Packaged”
Application
Hosted
“Packaged”
“Packaged”
using cloud
Buy
ERP
CRM
Email
HR System
Build vs. Buy
“Home Built”
Application
Hosted
“Home Built”
“Home Built”
using cloud
Molecule Research
Build
Clinical Trial
Hoster
Vendor
On Premise
Cloud
Identity and AuthN

Scalability

Regulations and other legal issues

Software + Services is the answer

Lap of Azure Chapter

Warning – this session contains information about Microsoft Technologies that are in the CTP (pre-Beta) stages. Specifics of the technology may change before final release.

Hey!
Why are you showing me CTP stuff?

Feedback.

We are here to help. Send us your questions, doubts, concerns, challenges, adoration, regrets, denials, and alibis.
We will start a discussion and help you out.
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RTC makes it easy to ship updates and new features.

Windows Azure Platform Roadmap
?
Additional Geos
Enhanced compliance
Commercial launch
Geo location
Future
CY 2010
Q4 2009
Inter-Role Communication
Variable VM Sizes
Enhanced compliance

Windows Azure Platform
Microsoft Cloud Services
Applications

Windows Azure Platform
Compute:Virtualized compute environment based on Windows Server
Storage: Durable, scalable, & available storage
Management: Automated, model-driven management of the service
Database:Relational processing for structured/unstructured data
Service Bus: General purpose application bus
Access Control: Rules-driven, claims-based access control

Azure Datacenter Chapter

OS Analogy Chapter

What does an Operating System do?
App1
App2
App3
App4
Management / Security / etc.
Task Scheduler
Hardware Abstraction Layer
DISK
CPU
GPU
Memory

Azure does this for the cloud
App1
App2
App3
App4
APIs / .NET ACS / etc.
Azure Fabric Controller
Azure Fabric
Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
Server 3,500

How many servers do you support?

“What is Microsoft doing in Cloud Computing?”

3 x Critical Concepts

Roles
Web Role
Worker Role

Storage
Table, Blob, Relational

Messaging
Queues, .NET Service Bus

Patterns for Cloud Computing
Using the Cloud for Scale

“Isn’t the cloud good for applications that need to scale dynamically?”

For example, tax applications

“How does this work?”

Let’s do some white boarding for Jim…

“Wow! What a great site!”
Database
Request
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser
Response

Browser
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser
“Server Busy”
Browser
Browser

Browser
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser
“Timeout”
Browser
Browser

How would Jim do this today on premises?

Browser
Web Tier
N L B
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser
Browser
Web Tier
Browser

Browser
Backend Tier
N L B
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Browser
Backend Tier
Browser
Backend Tier
Browser

Browser
Web Tier
N L B
Backend Tier
N L B
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Browser
Backend Tier
Browser
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser

Browser
p1 p2 p3
Web Tier
N L B
Backend Tier
N L B
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Browser
Backend Tier
Browser
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser

Not without consequences...

Browser
p1 p2 p3
Web Tier
N L B
Backend Tier
N L B
Browser
Database
Web Tier
Browser
Backend Tier
Browser
Web Tier
Backend Tier
Browser
“That took a lot of work - and money!”

p1 p2 p3
“Not so great now…”
Web Tier
N L B
Backend Tier
N L B
Database
Web Tier
Browser
Backend Tier
Web Tier
Backend Tier
“That took a lot of work - and money!”
“Hmmm... Most of this stuff is sitting idle...”

Lost Business
Datacenter peak load
Idle time
Usage
Jan
Apr
Jul
Oct

How can Windows Azure help?

#1 - Using the Cloud for Scale
“Wow! What a great site!”
Azure Storage
Request
Web Role
Worker Role
Browser
Response

Browser
Browser
Azure
Storage
Web Role
Worker Role
Browser
“Server Busy”
Browser
Browser

Browser
Web Role
N L B
Browser
AzureStorage
Web Role
Worker Role
Browser
Browser
Web Role
Browser
You don’t see this bit

Browser
Web Role
N L B
Worker Role
N L B
Browser
AzureStorage
Web Role
Browser
Worker Role
Browser
Web Role
Worker Role
Browser

Browser
p1 p2 p3
Web Role
N L B
Worker Role
N L B
Browser
AzureStorage
Web Role
Browser
Worker Role
Browser
Web Role
Worker Role
Browser

What’s going on behind the scenes?

Windows Azure
Your
Service
DNS
LB
Web Portal
(API)
LB
Fabric
Controller

Service
Service
Service
Model
Your
Service
DNS
LB
Web Portal
(API)
DNS
config
LB
Service Deployment
Fabric
Controller

Your
Service
Service
Service
DNS
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
LB
Service
Web Portal
(API)
LB
Model
Service Scaling
Fabric
Controller

Your
Service
Service
DNS
Service
Service
Service
LB
Web Portal
(API)
!
LB
Model
Service Monitoring & Recovery
Fabric
Controller

Maintenance OS
1
Guest Partition
Host Partition
Guest Partition
Guest Partition
Service 1
Bits
Service 2
Bits
Service 3
Bits
6
Web
VHD
Worker
VHD
Worker
VHD
5
Host Differencing
VHD
Guest Differencing
VHD
Guest Differencing
VHD
Guest Differencing
VHD
4
Enterprise base
VHD
Server Core
VHD
Server Core base VHD
2
7
3
Hypervisor
Physical Server Hardware
CPU, memory, disk, and network

Fault and Update Domains

On to the Case Study…

Project Austin delivers a next-generation, micro-community based opportunity management and collaboration experience that brings a managed feel to the unmanaged space, allowing Microsoft to observe and participate in the sales process at scale through dynamic, customer-driven collaboration.
Project Austin leverages Windows Azure, CRM Services, and SharePoint Services to provide a rich set of customer and partner capabilities in the cloud while integrating with existing on-premise solutions.
Project Austin significantly enhances our understanding of our customers and partners by facilitating relationships with and between customers, partners, and Microsoft, while providing data that allows Microsoft to identify and promote world-class selling techniques and content.
Project Austin Vision

Project Goals
Gain first-hand experience on Azure
Cloud Storage – Security – Integration – Web – SQL Azure
Explore a business scenario that leverages the promises of the cloud
Provide enterprise feedback to the Azure team
Deliver a working prototype in FY09
Project Austin Overview

Web Role
Multi-Tenant; Web App; Web Service
Integration
Worker Role; .NET Service Bus; Siebel
Data Storage
Tables; Blobs; Queues; SQL Azure
Live ID Integration
Web Auth; Access Control Service; WIF; RPS
Technical Overview

Community
Community
Micro Community
Factory
Community
Community
Community
Groups
Community Group A
Community Group B
Personalization
Membership
Content
Personalization
Membership
Content
High Level Services
Personalization
Customization
Content
Security
Integration
…
Navigation
Search
Membership
Identity
Groups
…
Foundation Services
Identity
Security
Storage
Eventing
Config
Content
…
Micro Community
Compute
93

Demo: Project Austin

(Transition to IT Evangelist…)
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Developers build it
Test locally
Build package w/ Tools
Upload your package to the web portal
Push “deploy”
Monitor, upgrade, scale…
Deploying Your Service To The Cloud

Demo: Deployment Experience

Roles
Web Role
Worker Role
Windows Server 2008 x64
.NET Start
Native Code
User Mode
Windows Server 2008 x64
IIS 7
FastCGI - PHP
Native Code
Full Trust
User Mode

Sign up for Azure tokens before you need them
Include instrumentation and logging from day 1
Performance test early & often
Azure changes the build – deploy – test process
The Azure Portal is sometimes down / slow
There is no debugging in the cloud
“Response.Write()” is your friend
Lessons LearnedOperations

Have a backup plan
Know how to reload the data
Practice your deployments
Practice your deployments again
Know how to rollback as needed
Lessons LearnedOperations - Deployment

Store startup config data in the Azure config files
Retire use of web.config
Use Azure tables to store shared config across instances
Log to Azure tables
In addition to Azure logs
Must be asynch
Don’t forget to close connections
Lessons LearnedOperations

Change scale and connection config in deployed scenario

Demo: Adjust system for scale

Look at current logging

Demo: Access to logs

Upgrade a deployment

DEMO: Deploy V2

The Oh Crap moment, rolling back

Storage in the Cloud…

Windows Azure Storage Service
HTTP
Blobs
Queues
Tables
Application
Storage
Compute
Fabric
…

Blobs stored in Containers
1 or more Containers per account
…/Container/blobpath
Blobs
Capacity 50GB in CTP
Metadata, accessed independently
name/value pairs (8kb total)
Private or Public container access
Use Blobs for file system
Blobs

Windows Azure Storage Service
. . .
Table
Table
Table
Entity
. . .
Entity
Entity
Property
Property
Property
Storage Accounts
Name
Type
Value

Entities and properties (rows & columns)
Tables scoped by account
Designed for billions+
Scale-out using partitions
Partition key & row key
Operations performed on partitions
Efficient queries
No limit on number of partitions
Automatic load management for hot data
Use ADO.NET Data Services
Tables

No join
No group by
No order by
Think: relational DB partitioned to the max
Not a Relational Database

Key Example – Blog Posts
Partition 1
Partition 2
Getting all of dunnry’s blog posts is fast
Single partition
Getting all posts after 2008-03-27 is slower
Traverse all partitions

Partition Key – how data is partitioned
Row Key – unique in partition, defines sort
Goals
Keep partitions small (increased scalability)
Specify partition key in common queries
Query/sort on row key
Keys

Azure Queues
RemoveMessage
GetMessage (Timeout)
Worker Role
PutMessage
Queue
Msg 1
Msg 2
Msg 2
Msg 1
Web Role
Worker Role
Worker Role
Msg 3
Msg 4
Msg 2

Simple asynchronous dispatch queue
Create and delete queues
Message:
Retrieved at least once
Max size 8kb
Queues

Example: Thumbnail Generator
n
m
Worker Role
Web Role
LB
Cloud Storage (blob, table, queue)

SQL Azure

Storage Strategy, what/when?

MMS/Powershell Azure Storage demo

SQL Azure demo

Resiliency / Planning to fail

Federated Identity

Companies have lots of applications

Each with their own silo of identity data

Each system is hardcoded for Az/An

Tedious to implement every time

Leads to greater risk as well

Many companies have 0 or n directories

Username & Password just isn’t enough anymore

An array of accounts for users

Intracompany?

Doesn’t work in the cloud

Framework for Claims Based Identity

Three geeks walk into a bar…

What is a Claim?
Web Application/Service
Username: Brian
Roles: Evangelist, Speaker
Email: Brian.Prince@microsoft.com
IsOfLegalVotingAge: True

The app is no longer concerned with
Authentication
Storing and securing usernames and passwords
Connecting to directories
Managing roles/rights/claims

Allows for Federation

Basic Scenario – Active Client
Directory/
Credential Store
Trusted Authority
(Web Service)
STS
Business Rules
2. Get Claims
(WS-Trust)
Relying Party
(Web Service)
1. Get Policy
Smart Client
3. Send Claims

Basic Scenario – Passive Client
Directory/
Credential Store
Trusted Authority
(Web App)
STS
Business Rules
2. Redirect
(WS-Federation)
Relying Party
(Web App)
1. HTTP GET
Browser
3. HTTP POST

Federated Scenario
(.NET?)
(Java?)
Internet
Trusted Authority
(Web Service)
Trusted Authority
(Web Service)
STS
Business Rules
STS
Business Rules
1
Relying Party
(Web Service)
2
Smart Client
3

Delegation and ActAs
Directory/
Credential Store
Trusted Authority
STS
Business Rules
3. Get Claims for svcInv ActAs Dieter
1. Get Claims for Dieter
Dieter’s
Browser
Back End
Web Service
4. svcInv ActAs Dieter
Web Front End
2. Dieter
ID: Dieter
ID: Dieter
ID: svcInv

Authentication Assurance

Geneva Server / FX

Pricing/SLA

Purchasing Models
Consumption
Volume Licensing
Subscription
“Pay as you go and grow”
“Coordinated purchasing”
“Value for a commitment“
Available at launch
Available post launch
Select offers at launch
Plans for payment predictability
Discounts for commitment
Low barrier to entry and flexibility
Optimized for cloud elasticity
Unified purchasing through EA
Introduction to volume discounts

Pricing Model
Compute
Per service hour
$0.12 / Hour
Storage
$0.15 GB / Month
$0.01/10K Transactions
Business Edition
10 GB Database
$99.99 / Month
Web Edition
1 GB Database
$9.99 / Month
Messages
Per message operation
$0.15 / 100K
Bandwidth
$0.10/GB inbound & $0.15/GB outbound

Service Guarantee
Storage availability
Compute connectivity
Role instance monitoring and restart
Guarantee
Your service is connected and reachable via web
Internet facing roles will have external connectivity
All running roles will be continuously monitored
If role is unhealthy, we will detect and initiate corrective state
Storage service will be available / reachable
Your storage requests will be processed successfully
Technologypromise
Automated Systems Management
<99.95%
<99.9%
SLA

Compare to virtualization

Many companies are deploying virtualization

The cloud is just the next step

Many see the cloud, and want a private cloud.

Azure is not shippable now.

Dynamic Data Center Toolkit

Customer wins/evidence

(Transition to Architect Evangelist for wrap-up…)
Highlight customer wins or Partner experiences
Q&A
Collect surveys and Hand out tokens
Giveaways
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@matthewhester @brianhprince
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