Azure website

1. WINDOWS AZURE
WEBSITES
Global Windows Azure Boot Camp – 29 March 2014

2. AGENDA
• Azure Web Sites Overview
• What is Azure Web Sites?
• What is it best suited for?
• What is it not about?
• How does it work?
• Tools
• Supported Web Frameworks
• Continuous Deployment
• Scaling
• Thank You

3. ROLE FOR WINDOWS AZURE WEB
SITES WITH CD

4. WHAT IS AZURE WEB SITES

5. WHAT IS AZURE WEB SITES
WebSites
CloudServices
VirtualMachines
Applications
Data
Firewall Rules
Virtual
Network
O/S
Applications
Data
Firewall Rules
Virtual
Network
Applications
Data

6. WHAT IS IT BEST SUITED FOR?
• Best for standalone web apps & web services
• Digital Campaigns
• Social Apps
• Gaming front-ends
• Mobile App supporting services
• Corporate websites
• Brand websites
• Multiple blogging sites

7. WHAT IS IT NOT ABOUT?
• Background Services (e.g. Windows Services)
• Operating System Access
• File System Access
• Unsupported programming language
• Web App Memory/CPU > VM Limits

8. HOW IT WORKS?
All DBs are running
on SQL Azure.
Azure blobs as
durable storage.
Windows Azure
worker roles.
Monitor
resources usage.
Dynamic web
activation service.
W3WP.exe IIS
application
pool process.
Azure LB
IIS ARR (LB)
Deployment
server(s)
API frontend
Web server
Storage controller
Site
(W3WP.exe)
Metering
DWAS
Runtime DB
Web Sites DB‟s
Cloud drive

9. HTTP WebWork
er
WebWork
er
WebWorker
Frontend
(IIS ARR)
SQL Azure VHD blobs
SQL Azure / MySQL / Mongo
API endpoint
Publish
endpoint
File Server
WebWorker
SERVING HTTP(S) TRAFFIC – INACTIVE SITE („COLD‟ SITE)
http://site1..../

10. HTTP Frontend
(IIS ARR)
SQLAzure VHD blobs
SQLAzure
API
endpoint
Publish
endpoint
FileServer
SERVING HTTP(S) TRAFFIC – INACTIVE SITE („COLD‟ SITE)
http://site1..../
WebWorker
site1site1

11. HTTP WebWork
er
WebWork
er
WebWorker
SQLAzure VHD blobs
SQLAzure
API
endpoint
Publish
endpoint
FileServer
SERVING HTTP(S) TRAFFIC – ACTIVE SITE („HOT‟ SITE)
http://site1..../
WebWorker
Frontend
(IIS ARR)

12. TOOLS – SUPPORTED WEB
FRAMEWORKS
• Web Matrix for Windows Azure
• Free
• Multi language – PHP & Node.js
• Visual Studio 2013
• Complete end to end tool
• Extensions http://vswebessentials.com
• Visual Studio Online Monaco
• New
• Online
• Low cost
• PowerShell Commands

13. DEMO
Time for demo

14. CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT -
PUBLISHING METHOD

15. CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT -
BACKGROUND
• Kudu – an internal deployment engine – “watches” for check-ins
• An automated build is completed
• KuduSync kicks in
• The deployment is created in your website‟s folder structure
• The new deployment is copied to your site‟s root, leaving old deployments intact
• It‟s an open source project available on GitHub
• Automatically installed on all Windows Azure Web Sites
• Can use a custom deployment script

16. CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT - SERVICE
HOOKS
• Executed whenever a deployment via Git, Mercurial or DropBox is
completed
• Retrieved from your configuration settings in the dashboard
• Can participate in trigger-action scenarios

17. Multi-tenant. Daily quotas
Multi-tenant. Daily quotas
Dedicated VMs. No quotas

18. QUESTION
1. Social Apps
2. Gaming front-ends
3. File System Access
4. Mobile App supporting services
5. Corporate websites
Which one of the below is not an option for
Azure Web Site?

19. THANK YOU
Azure UG