5 absolutely beautiful things about Platform as a Service (PaaS) Instantaneous productivity, familiar but different development experience, enhances engineering practices, focuses on applications over infrastructure, and is programmable and extendable.

1. 5 absolutely beautiful things about
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Cory Fowler
Program Manager II

2. Disclaimer

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9. Instantaneous Productivity

11. Familiar but different

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13. code.visualstudio.com

14. Gallery

17. WebJobs

18. WebJobs

20. Kudu Console

21. Debug Console

22. Process Explorer

23. Support Portal

26. App Service Architecture
Windows Azure
Load Balancer
Runtime Database
Application Database
API Endpoint
Frontend (IIS ARR)
Publish Endpoint Blob Storage
File Server
Metering
Deployment
Server(s)
Application Cache

27. Enhances engineering practices

28. 2) Check-in
1) Develop
4) Deploy to slot 5) Test
7) Deploy to Cloud8) Monitor and Improve
Azure
3) “Build”
Contoso App
6) Swap

29. Customizing the Deployment
$ azure site deploymentscript --php
 Install Dependencies
 Compile Source code
 Minify JavaScript/CSS
 Run Unit Tests

31. Staging

32. Staging

33. Staging

34. Staging

36. Focuses on the application

37. Designed for secure mission-critical applications Optimized for Availability and Automatic scale Agility through Continuous Deployment
Hybrid Connections / VPN Support
Scheduled Backup
Azure Active Directory Integration
Site Resiliency, HA, and DR
Web Jobs
Role Base Access Control
Audit / Compliance
Enterprise Migration
Client Certs
Cache
IP Restrictions/ SSL
Web Sockets
SQL, MySQL, DocDB, & Mongo
Sticky Sessions
Authorization/ Authentication
Automated Deployment
AutoScale
Built-in Load Balancing
WW Datacenter Coverage
End Point Monitoring & Alerts
App Gallery
DR Site Support
WildCard Support
Dedicated IP address
HTTP Compression
CDN Support for Websites
Premium WordPress
App Services Environments
Remote Debugging w/ Visual Studio
Site Staging Slots
Traffic Routing
Continuous Integration/Deployment
Git, Visual Studio Online and GitHub
App & Site Diagnostics
OS & Framework Patching
Site Extensions Gallery
NET, PHP, Python, Node, Java
Framework Installer
Browser-based editing
Auto-Healing
Logging and Auditing
Admin-Site
Support Site Extension

38. Traffic Routing
100%80%
20%

39. Manual Scaling
1 6Instance Count Instances

40. AutoScale

41. AutoScale

42. AutoScale

44. Programmable and extendable

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Anatomy of a Web App

47. SCM Site
WebJobs API
WebJobs
REST API
Debug Console Web HooksProcess Explorer
Site Extensions Deployment HooksVirtual File SystemDeployments
Source Control
Lesser known Kudu

48. Pre-Installed Site Extensions

49. BYO Site Extensions

51. • Instantaneous productivity
• Familiar
• Enhances
• Focuses
• Programmable