The document discusses deploying applications to Microsoft Azure. It provides an overview of Azure, describing it as a cloud solution that allows hosting websites, APIs, and processing data/video. Azure provides platforms as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It scales based on demand and supports applications through services like virtual machines, databases, storage, and big data tools. The document demonstrates setting up applications in Azure and discusses how it can help with challenges like performance issues or limited budgets. It provides an overview of open source support on Azure platforms like web apps, virtual machines, storage, and analytics tools.

1. Deploy to Azure
In less then 15 minutes
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Michelangelo van Dam
‣ Pro PHP consultant at in2it
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What is Microsoft Azure?

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Microsoft Azure in a nutshell
• A cloud solution by Microsoft to solve a “common” problem
• Easy to get started with
• Host a website, manage an API, process video or data
• Comes with a series of services
• For private purposes (blog, website, book collection)
• For business purposes (CRM, ERP, CMS, API, Mobile, IoT)

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Microsoft Azure is flexible
• Runs your apps as PaaS, SaaS or Iaas
• Scales up when demand requires more power
• Scales down when demand is no longer required
• Support by big company -> Microsoft

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Microsoft Azure is the cloud provider every
developer dreams of.
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Microsoft Azure in numbers
• Announced in October 2008
• Released on 1 February 2010 as Windows Azure
• Renamed to Microsoft Azure on 25 March 2014
• Lists over 250 services
• Operational in 24 regions

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The road to infinity

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Marketplace applications
• Blog, Photo galleria, e-commerce web shop
• CRM, ERP, CMS
• Educational platform
• Web Analytics
• Documentation wiki
• …

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Virtual Machines
• Linux flavored virtual machine
• Provides full flexibility to
• Run arbitrary services
• Run specific applications
• Scales up or down with increased/decreased requirements

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Big data on steroids
• Scalable Hadoop clusters
• For high performant data processing and analysis
• With additional reporting and representation tools

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Powerful search engines
• Index your data efficiently
• Make it searchable using
• Keyword matching
• Full text search
• Range searches
• Spatial searches

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All these services are
based on Open Source technologies!

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Case
existing project
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Minimal requirements
Computing power Database

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Some time later…
Search capabilities Storage capacity

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Some more time later…
HDInsights - Big Data DocumentDB

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Microsoft Azure
• Gives you the option to start small
• Grows with your increased demands
• Offers you platforms for even higher requirements

20. Demo Application
Set up custom app

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Gathering requirements
Web App
Marketplace
Mail Service
Azure SearchMySQL DB

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Case
a new project
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Marketplace

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Automatically configured

26. Demo Application
Install WordPress in just a few steps

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Real challenges
https://www.flickr.com/photos/muleonor/5115248509/

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Performance issues?
• Azure can help
• To scale horizontally adding more instances when required
• To scale vertical allowing you to segment your data
• To improve caching and data retrieval (Redis and CDN)

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Great ideas, no budget
• Azure can help
• Start off with the FREE tiers
• Build your minimal critical mass
• Generate revenue or get investments
• Scale as you grow adding better, paid services

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Overview of open source
solutions in Microsoft Azure

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Web Apps
OS Technology support OS deployment tools

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Web Apps Gallery

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Virtual Machines
OS Operating Systems OS Provisioning

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Storage
OS Caching OS Databases

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HDInsights - Big Data
OS Big Data tools

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Azure Search
Based on
Azure SQL
Storage Tables
DocumentDB
Azure Integrated Trough Azure Search REST API

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Microsoft Azure
pen Sourcepen Source

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Global recap
• Azure is a great platform for available and internally developed
open source applications.
• Now businesses have a quick-time-to-market rolling out
applications to the cloud.
• Offers a wide variety of ready-to-use open source applications
through the Azure MarketPlace.
• Is easy to setup a continuous delivery procedure for your
developers to ensure your app runs the latest version.

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