2. Introduction
Azure is Microsoft's cloud service software that
provides a Software Development Kit to Web
sites, Virtual machines, and Cloud Services for either
the cloud, on-premise, or a hybrid between both.
It is an Open Source SDK that supports several
languages other than ASP.NET, such as Python, PHP
and Node.js.
http://azure.microsoft.com/
3. SDKs
lThe SDKs source code Source can be
downloaded from GitHub at
lhttps://github.com/Azure
lThe SDK and other Azure downloads can be
found at
lhttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downlad
4. Competing Products
lFor Google Apps,there is the Google App
Engine,https://developers.google.com/appengi
ne/
lSalesforce.com, https://www.salesforce.com
lFor Amazon, there is Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud EC2,http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
5. Platform as a Service
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a category of
cloud computing services that provides a
computing platform and a solution stack as a
service. The provider provides the web
services, database services and other services
that are required to host the consumer's
application.
6. Infrastructure as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a category of
cloud computing services that provides a
virtual machine and cloud storage. The provider
provides the networks, servers, storage, and
other infrastructure pieces that are required to
host the consumer's application.
7. Software as a Service
Software as a service (SaaS) is a software
distribution model in which applications are
hosted by a vendor or service provider and
made available to customers over a network,
typically the Internet. For example, a CRM
framework to design customer service software
applications hosted in the cloud.
9. Execution Models
There are three ways to create applications
through Azure.
1) By creating Websites
2) By creating Virtual Machines
3) By creating cloud services
16. ASP MVC deploying
C# Applications in ASP MVC can be created and
deployed to the Azure cloud. This is done by creating
the application in Visual Studio with the Azure SDK
and publishing to the cloud.
17. ASP MVC publishing
Publish to deploy to the cloud, Package to save it in
the cloud packages for deployment later.
18. Visual Studio
Visual Studio, with the Azure SDK, has many built-in
tools for Azure, such as the use of Server Explorer to
explore your Azure resources that are configured.
24. Cloud Services
When creating your cloud services, a unique
URL must be selected that will be appended
with “cloudapp.net” to access your services at a
later time.
lCloud services are background applications
living in your cloud partition, such as web
services or scheduled tasks.
lThe Azure fabric will manage these
applications.
25. Creating
You can also create a cloud service, which will require
a cloud package, or cspkg file, and deployment file, or
cscfg file.
26. Packages
The Cloud Service Package file is basically a zip
file.
lIt is created, as well cloud service
configuration, or cscfg file, from Visual Studio
using the Azure SDK when we “Package” an
Windows Azure application.
lWe can “Publish” the application to the Azure
cloud from Visual Studio.
28. SQL Database
lWe can create a SQL database as we normally
would on a SQL Server. The wizards and
interfaces may be different, but the result is to
be the same for the cloud.
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29. SQL Database Design
lWe can create a SQL database tables and
Stored Procedures normally, just through an
Azure interface.
30. SQL Database Monitoring
lSince the SQL database is working the same in
the cloud as on-premise, working through a
cloud connection string, Visual Studio SQL
tools, programs and SQL Server Reporting
Services (SSRS) can be used to interact with the
cloud SQL database to perform normal
monitoring, logging, and other actions to check
the SQL database.
31. SQL thru Visual Studio
lSince the SQL database is working the same in
Visual Studio, we can access the SQL database
via Visual Studio to Azure, and create tables,
data, etc.
33. Storage
lBesides the SQL database, there are three
other types of storage:
l1) Table Storage
l2) BLOB Storage
l3) Queues
l
34. Creation
lStorage creation begins with creating a Storage
account To create a Storage account, simply do
“New-> Data Services-> Storage”.
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35. Table Storage
lIn this configuration piece, we are configuring No-SQL
tables that require a key-value pair to access the entity
in the row.
lThe Account Name and Account Key are used as part
of the connection string to access the table.
lThe models are entities with getters and setters that
match the fields in the table.
lThe entities can be inserted, deleted, and have lookup
in the table.
lIt allows smaller space for quicker lookups.
36. Table Storage Properties
lPartition Key – A unique key associated with partition
as a collection of all associated rows. This is defined to
define which partition to access. An example is the
name of the table.
lRow Key – A unique key to identify the row in the
parturition, usually a unique id.
lTimestamp – The time the row was updated and is
updated by Azure.
37. BLOB Storage
lBLOB storage is for Binary Large Objects (BLOB).
lAn example of a BLOB object is a media file for video.
lBLOBs are unstructured data that are larger binary
files.
38. Azure Queues
The main uses of Queues includes:
1) Processing messages asynchronously
2) Passing messages from an Azure
Web role to an Azure Worker role
46. Hadoop Introduction
Hadoop is Open Source Apache framework
found at http://hadoop.apache.org/
lIt is a framework that allows for the distributed
processing of large data sets across clusters of
computers using simple programming models.
47. Hadoop Distributed
File System
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a
distributed file system that provides high-
throughput access to application
48. MapReduce
Hadoop MapReduce is a software framework
for easily writing applications which process
vast amounts of data (multi-terabyte data-sets)
in-parallel on large clusters (thousands of
nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable,
fault-tolerant manner.
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/mapred
_tutorial.html
49. Hive
Hive is a SQL-like query language for working
with big data like Hadoop from Apache,
http://hive.apache.org/ .
lThe Hive query language is called HiveQL.
50. Pig
Another Apache framework for working with
Hadoop is Pig, see http://pig.apache.org/ ,
which uses a high-level procedural language
refereed to as “pig Latin” that is not as SQL-like
as Hive.
Note, Hive was created by Facebook, Pig was
created by Yahoo.
51. HDInsight
HDInsight is Microsoft's 100% Apache
compatible Hadoop distribution, supported by
Microsoft. HDInsight, available both on
Windows Server or as an Windows Azure
service.
54. AppFabric
AppFabric is any n-tier .NET application that
spans the web, middle, and data tiers,
composes with external services, and is
inherently written to the cloud architecture for
scale and availability.
55. AppFabric
•Adding a caching provider and a monitoring
service to WCF and WF creates the Microsoft
AppFabric Framework and Architecture.
•There is a special version that supports Azure.
•The Micrsoft.ServiceBus.dll and namespace
will be used to extend Service Bus helper
extensions to WCF and WF.
56. AppFabric
•Adding a caching provider and a monitoring
service to WCF and WF creates the Microsoft
AppFabric Framework and Architecture.
•There is a special version that supports Azure.
•The Micrsoft.ServiceBus.dll and namespace
will be used to extend Service Bus helper
extensions to WCF and WF.
57. Azure AppFabric pieces
•Azure AppFabric components:
•Enterprise Service Bus
•Caching
•Application Monitoring
•Workflow Persistence
•Service Management
59. What is the Azure Service Bus?
Windows Azure Service Bus provides a hosted,
secure, and widely available infrastructure for
widespread communication between different
messaging endpoints to include web services.
60. Service Bus Communications
The Service bus communicates via three
methods:
1) Queues – one-to-one messaging through
queues.
2) Topics – one-to-many publish-subscribe
messagings.
3) Relays – one-to-one requests-replies not
queuing
64. What is a Cache?
A cache is a storage location or BLOB to hold
data.
65. Creation
Normally created through Azure SDK tools, see
https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-
tools/wiki/Managed-Cache
PS C:> help azuremanagedcache
Name Category Module
Synopsis
---- -------- ------ --------
Get-AzureManagedCache Cmdlet
Azure Gets the Azure Caches in your Azure
account.
66. Cache Powershell Cmdlets
PS C:> help azuremanagedcache
Name Category Module Synopsis
---- -------- ------ --------
Get-AzureManagedCache Cmdlet Azure Gets the Azure
Caches in your Azure account.
Get-AzureManagedCacheAccessKey Cmdlet Azure Gets the
access keys for an Azure Cache
New-AzureManagedCache Cmdlet Azure Creates an Azure
cache
New-AzureManagedCacheAccessKey Cmdlet Azure Creates new
access keys for an Azure Cache.
Remove-AzureManagedCache Cmdlet Azure Deletes an Azure
Cache
Set-AzureManagedCache Cmdlet Azure Changes the
properties of an Azure Cache.
68. Workflow Persistence
Workflow Persistence is the ability to create
persistence in Windows Workflow.
Persistence can be created through various
means of Azure and on-premise storage,
including Table storage and the SQL database
to save state through the workflow.
73. Microsoft Azure Management
Libraries
The Microsoft Azure Management Libraries can
be used to automate, deploy, and test cloud
infrastructure:
lMicrosoft Azure Virtual Machines
lHosted and Infrastructure Services
lScheduler
lStorage Accounts
lSubscription information
lNetworks
lWeb Sites
74. Azure Diagnostics
lWindows Azure Diagnostics enables you to
collect diagnostic data from an application
running in Windows Azure. You can use
diagnostic data for debugging and
troubleshooting, measuring
performance, monitoring resource
usage, traffic analysis and capacity
planning, and auditing.
75. Application Trace
lTracing is a way for you to monitor the
execution of your application while it is
running. You can use the
System.Diagnostics.Trace,
System.Diagnostics.Debug, and
System.Diagnostics.TraceSource classes to
record information about errors and
application execution in logs, text files, or other
devices.
77. What is a Scheduler?
Azure Scheduler allows you to invoke actions
based on a schedule. These actions include:
lCalling HTTP/S enpoints
lPosting a message to a storage queue
lCreate a scheduled job to call services both
inside and outside Azure
lhttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/services/scheduler/
83. Media Components
There are several features in Windows Azure to assist
the user with working with media files:
1) Media ingest – uploading media files into the Azure
cloud, storing into BLOBS.
2) Encoding – translating into different media formats.
3) Content protection – provides digital rights
protection for media
4) Ad Insertion – insert ads in video streams
5) Streaming
6) Additional Add-ons.
85. Access Control
lWindows Azure uses access control in 2
separate means:
l1) Using Active Directory inside the Virtual
Machine
l2) Using Active Directory inside the cloud
lHowever, we can sync Azure Active Directory
with the on-premise Active Directory.
l
86. Azure Active Directory Features
lWe can sync Azure Active Directory with on-
premise Active Directory.
lCan provide Single Sign On (SSO) for cloud
applications.
lIntegrate with other cloud providers and
services to provide SSO.
lManage users and data repositories across the
cloud.
87. Access Control
lWindows Azure uses access control in 2
separate means:
l1) Using Active Directory inside the Virtual
Machine
l2) Using Active Directory inside the cloud
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92. Azure Connect
lAzure Connect is to connect certain computers
on-premise to certain applications in the cloud.
For instance, connecting a DBA's computer to
the SQL database in the cloud.
93. Traffic Management
lAzure Traffic Management is about connecting
users or other applications to a cloud region.
For instance, focusing Asian customers to the
Asian clouds for better local bandwidth.
