Windows Azure provides many services that are very appealing for PHP developers, especially if you need to get started quickly. In this talk I give my motivation to try out Windows Azure cloud solutions, and discuss the main features like web sites, virtual machines and cloud services. Combining these features with blob storage, table storage, queues, WinCache, CDN and SSL you can build robust, scalable and very performant web applications and deploy them in just a few minutes.

1. PHP
Azure
A
brand
new
day
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2. Michelangelo
van
Dam
PHP
Consultant
Community
Leader
email:
michelangelo@in2it.be
twi;er:
@dragonbe
facebook:
dragonbe
!
Trainer
Contact
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3. #phpazure
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4. Why
Windows
Azure?
‣ PHP
Developer
‣ Write
web
applicaFons
‣ Want
to
deploy
fast
and
safe
‣ Prototyping
‣ Not
a
sysadmin
‣ Don’t
have
Fme
to
worry
about
plaIorms
‣ Don’t
want
to
worry
about
scalability
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5. Azure
for
PHP
devs
‣ Supports
most
common
PHP
frameworks
‣ Symfony,
Zend
Framework,
Silex,
Slim,
…
‣ Building
robust
web
applicaFons
‣ storage
and
CDN
‣ easy
separaFon
of
responsibiliFes
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6. Move
to
the
cloud
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7. Or
more
complex
Centric Architecture
Application 3
2
Database
at
ic
Application 1
Database
Log
L
Storage
A
Cache
Worker
Y
Storage
E
Cache
R
Log
Mail
Cache
Queue
Application 5
Proxy
Service Layer
4
Web
Application
E
R
V
Database
I
C
Queue
Queue
E
n
Ap
pl
S
Web Application
io
Proxy
at
ic
Web
Application
Log
pl
io
n
Proxy
API
Ap
Proxy
Storage
Mail
Mail
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8. Windows
Azure
Stack
Custom
Ready to go
Technology
Services
Data
Storage
Blob
Tables
Queue
CDN
Cache
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9. Azure
SDK
for
PHP
‣ Contents
‣ PHP
client
libraries
for
Windows
Azure
‣ Command
line
tools
for
Mac
&
Linux
‣ Windows
Azure
powershell
for
Windows
‣ Windows
Azure
Emulators
for
Windows
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10. SDK
for
PHP
‣ WindowsAzure
‣ Blob
‣ Common
‣ Queue
‣ ServiceBus
‣ ServiceManagement
‣ ServiceRunFme
‣ Table
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11. SDK
installaFon
Composer
PEAR
GIT
$
svn
export
h:ps://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-­‐sdk-­‐for-­‐
php/trunk/WindowsAzure
library/WindowsAzure
!
Subversion
Hp
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12. PEAR
dependencies
‣ HTTP_Request2
‣ Mail_mime
‣ Mail_mimeDecode
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13. Windows
Azure
Websites
Virtual
Machines
CDN
Mobile
Storage
Cloud
Services
QA
VPN
SLA
SSL
Big
Data
Media
ACL
IdenHty
Mgmt
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14. Azure
Websites
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15. The
quickest
way
to
deploy
to
the
cloud
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16. Requirements
‣ A
PHP
project
‣ A
version
control
system
‣ local
(GIT,
Subversion,
TFS,
WebDeploy)
‣ on
line
(GitHub,
Bitbucket,
DropBox)
‣ AlternaFve
tools
‣ FTP
deploy
‣ Using
VisualStudio
or
WebMatrix
to
deploy
‣ About
15
minutes
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17. One
important
thing!
‣ DocumentRoot
in
project
subdir
‣ e.g.
public/index.php
‣ Requirement
for
web.config
<rule name="GoPub" patternSyntax="Wildcard">
<match url="*" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="public/index.php" />
</rule>
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19. Virtual
Machines
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20. AlternaFve
way
to
achieve
cloud
power
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21. Usages
‣ Run
arbitrary
processes
‣ e.g.
cron
processes
‣ Provide
uFlity
services
‣ e.g.
forward
proxy
‣ Cloud
OS
‣ Windows,
SQL
Server
or
Linux
in
the
cloud
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22. in 2 it

23. Cloud
Services
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24. I
was
clueless
:-(
?
?
?
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25. Background
‣ Coming
from
a
UNIX/Linux
environment
‣ Worked
as
system
administrator
‣ Wrote
tools
in
Perl
(yeah,
I
know)
‣ Used
to
Cron,
Shell,
CGI
and
Daemons
‣ Worked
with
Windows
IIS
‣ Never
had
to
set
things
up
‣ Used
FTP
to
deploy
on
the
system
‣
Never
knew
the
fact
it
was
a
web
role
in
IIS
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26. Figuring
it
out
‣ Web
Role
‣ A
web
site
or
service
running
on
the
internet
‣ Can
use
all
Windows
Azure
services
‣ Worker
Role
‣ Runs
processes
in
the
background
‣ Can
use
all
Windows
Azure
services
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27. Why
Cloud
Services?
‣ All
the
power
of
Web
Sites
‣ With
smart
scaling
capabiliFes
‣ Memcache
like
caching
layer
per
instance
‣ Staging/ProducFon
environments
‣ With
smart
swapping
‣ Allows
controlled
automated
deployments
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28. Command
line
tools
h;p://www.windowsazure.com/en-­‐us/manage/linux/how-­‐to-­‐guides/command-­‐line-­‐tools/
h;p://msdn.microsok.com/en-­‐us/library/windowsazure/jj156055.aspx
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29. Endless
posibiliFes
WebApp
WebApp
WorkerApp
WinCache
Blob
Storage
Azure
SQL
Table
Storage
Queues
3rd-­‐party
MySQL
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30. DTAP
environment
WorkstaHon
Windows
Azure
Windows
Azure
Web
Fabric
Staging
ProducHon
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31. Web
Role
for
PHP
Local
‣ Start
Azure
Emulator
‣ PS
C:devmyProject>
Start-­‐AzureEmulator
Creating local package...
Starting Emulator...
Role is running at http://127.0.0.1:81
Started
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38. Storage
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39. Blob
storage
‣ Storage
for
binary
large
objects
(BLOB)
‣ Block
blobs
(200GB)
‣ Page
blobs
(1TB)
‣ Unlimited
storage
capacity
‣ Content
delivery
network
(CDN)
‣ HTTP
and
HTTPS
support
‣ CNAME
support
‣ To
integrate
within
your
own
domain
(e.g.
blob.mycompany.com)
‣ Data
replicaFon
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40. Blob
Storage
overview
image1.jpg
images
My
Company
image2.jpg
movies
movie1.mov
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41. Usage
of
blobs
https://mycompany.blob.core.windows.net/image/image1.jpg
https://cdn01.mycompany.com/image/image1.jpg
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42. Table
storage
‣ Storage
of
structured
data
‣ Oken
referred
to
as
NoSQL
‣ Implements
tree-­‐like
data
storage
and
‣
‣
retrieval
Scalable
and
replicated
Supports
OData
protocol
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43. Table
Storage
overview
name
=
…
email
=
…
customer
name
=
…
email
=
…
Company
product
code
=
…
price
=
…
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44. Accessing
Table
Store
data
‣ Using
REST
directly
‣ GET
h;p://mycompany.table.core.windows.net/
customer
‣ Using
SDK
‣ h;ps://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-­‐sdk-­‐
for-­‐php
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45. Queue
Storage
‣ FIFO
type
storage
‣ Processing
one
item
a
Fme
‣ Messages
in
any
format
of
64KB
‣ Useful
for
deferred
acFons
‣ Resize
of
images
‣ Sending
out
mails
‣…
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46. Queue
Storage
overview
Email
3
Worker
Role
Email
2
Email
1
Queue
Email
1
2
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47. Accessing
Queue
Messages
‣ Directly
with
REST
‣ GET
h;ps://
mycompany.queue.core.windows.net/
mailToSend
‣ Indirectly
using
SDK
‣ h;ps://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-­‐sdk-­‐
for-­‐php
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48. A
lot
more…
Infrastructure
Big Data
Web
Mobile
Dev & Test
Media
Storage,
Backup &
Recovery
Identity &
Access
Management
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49. Free
trial
www.windowsazure.com
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50. YouTube.com/WindowsAzure
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51. Conclusion
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52. Conclusion
‣ PHP
for
web
applicaFon
development
‣ WAWS
for
rapid
prototyping
‣ WACS
for
scaling
web
apps
and
workers
‣ WAVM
for
proxy,
tooling
and
scheduling
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53. PHP
checklist
‣ Get
your
prototypes
online
quickly
‣ Ensure
your
apps
stay
online
all
the
Fme
‣ Distribute
responsibiliFes
‣ Integrate
3rd-­‐party
soluFons
easily
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54. ited
Lim
✓
No
system
knowledge
necessary!
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55. in 2 it
Michelangelo
van
Dam
Zend
CerFfied
Engineer
!
michelangelo@in2it.be
PHP
ConsulFng
-­‐
QA
Audits
-­‐
Training
Courses
!
www.in2it.be
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56. CreaFve
Commons
Credits
‣ sunny
clouds:
h;p://www.flickr.com/
‣
‣
‣
photos/andyfitz/2340298916
balloon:
h;p://www.flickr.com/photos/
ashraful/5836601848
flight:
h;p://www.flickr.com/photos/
unfinishedportrait/7712845996
train:
h;p://www.flickr.com/photos/
nomadic_lass/8508000688
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