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Windows Azure for Developers - Service Management
The document provides an overview of Windows Azure services, focusing on the Service Management API and various management tools available for developers. It introduces key terms related to Azure such as subscriptions, storage accounts, and deployment environments, and discusses the functionality of the Service Management API. Additionally, it covers PowerShell cmdlets for managing Azure services and includes scenarios for automating deployment and maintenance tasks.
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- 1. Windows Azure forDevelopers Service Management API Wednesday, January 11th 2012
- 2. About Me Michael S.Collier National Architect, Windows Azure michael.collier@neudesic.com @MichaelCollier www.MichaelSCollier.com
- 3. Today’s Agenda • Windows Azure Overview • Service Management REST API • PowerShell Cmdlets • Scenarios • Q&A
- 4. Windows Azure Primer •Flexible and powerful platform for developers • Build, deploy, and manage applications – Microsoft’s world-class datacenters – Application management – Developer SDK • On-demand services – Compute – Storage – Networking – Identity Management – Caching • Ideal situations – Scalability – Availability – Fault Tolerance
- 5. Windows Azure Primer Business Portal Developer Portal User Code REST Service Management Service Runtime API Storage Cluster Compute Cluster … … VM Setup VS Tools … Cloud VM WA SDK REST Desktop MSFT Datacenters Image courtesy: Windows Azure Training Kit, November 2011
- 6. Windows Azure Termsto Know Term Description Subscription An account – related to billing. Storage Account Windows Azure storage services for the subscription. Zero or more storage accounts. Hosted Service Container for service deployments. Zero or more hosted services. Deployment A running service in either production or staging deployment environment. Reference by a deployment ID or environment. Deployment Environment Staging or Production Certificate X509 certificate for managing a subscription Location One of 6 worldwide Windows Azure datacenters Affinity Group Grouping of storage accounts & hosted services; performance benefits Operation A management operation against the Storage Management API Operating Systems Guest operating system supported by Windows Azure
- 7. Windows Azure ManagementOptions • Developer Portal (http://windows.azure.com) – Windows Live ID – Co-admin support • Microsoft tools – System Center Operations Manager – Visual Studio (dev) – MMC (http://wapmmc.codeplex.com/) • 3rd Party Tools – Cerebrata – Quest Software • Service Management API
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- 9. Can we .. . Or Can We Not? Yes No • Manage hosted services • New subscription – Create – Update • Billing – Start, stop, delete • SQL Azure • Manage storage accounts • ACS • Certificates • Affinity Groups • List Locations • OS Information • Subscription History & Details
- 10. Versions • New versionsadded to support new features • Request Header – x-ms-version – YYYY-MM-DD • “2011-10-01” is the most recent – New • Rollback update or upgrade • Get Subscription – Updated • Get Hosted Service Properties • Get Deployment
- 11. Authentication • X509 v3 certificates • Maximum of 10 certificates per subscription • Shouldn’t contain the private key • Keep it secure! • Must use HTTPS • Can be a self-signed certificate – IIS – makecert – Visual Studio publish wizard (new)
- 12. Exploring the WindowsAzure Service Management REST API
- 13. Getting Back toBasics with REST • Base endpoint: https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id> • MSDN will be your friend – http://bit.ly/AzureServiceMgmtRefMC • Async Calls – Need to poll to find the status – API returns 202 (Accepted) – Don’t poll too frequently – may get throttled
- 14. Create a NewHosted Service DEMO
- 15. Exploring the WindowsAzure POWERSHELL CMDLETS
- 16. Cmdlets are yourfriend • Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets – http://wappowershell.codeplex.com – Setup scripts install the 64bit version by default! – Working with Visual Studio or Team Build? Need the 32bit version • Cerebrata’s Azure Management Cmdlets – http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/AzureManagementCmdlets • Ideal for – IT Pros – Developers – TFS
- 17. Deploy a HostedService with PowerShell DEMO
- 18. Scenarios • Automated processes – TFS • Scheduled deployments to staging for integration testing • REST or PowerShell Cmdlets – Developer productivity • Deploy to Azure for testing • Clean-up tasks • Instance Scaling – WASABI • Part of Enterprise Library 5.0 for Windows Azure Integration Pack (http://bit.ly/EntLib5AzureMC) • Source code available. Good example of using the API. – Custom Code
- 19. Resources • Windows AzureTraining Kit – http://bit.ly/AzureTrainingKitMC • Mackenzie, Neil. Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook, Packt, 2011. – http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-azure- development-cookbook/book • Michael Washam’s blog – http://michaelwasham.com • Tom Hollander’s blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tomholl • MSDN – http://bit.ly/AzureServiceMgmtRefMC
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- #4 Windows Azure National ArchitectWindows Azure MVPHelp customers nationwide with their Windows Azure projects. This can include architectural design sessions, training, development, evangelism, etc.Reach me via email, Twitter, or my blog.
- #5 Leave time at the end for a few questions.
- #6 6 worldwide datacenters
- #8 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460786.aspx
- #12 Request header must be specified
- #13 Keep it secure – anyone with the private key for the cert can use the Svc Mgmt APISelf-signedUsed for private communication between client app and Azure Svc Mgmt APICertificate image from WATK (November 2011) – “Managing, Debugging, and Monitoring Windows Azure.pptx”