Cloud Computing Webinar: Architecture Insights for Microsoft Azure

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Architecture Insights for Microsoft Azure
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• Agenda
• Azure Architecture Insights
• Design by anticipating cost structure
• Azure Service Fabric
• Patterns Practices on GitHub
• Azure Architecture Center
• Azure Resource Manager Templates
• Azure Building Blocks
• On-Premises Lift and Shift
• Web Apps
• Azure Storage Accounts

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Azure Architecture Insights

• Cost awareness
• Design for savings
• Utilize available services
• Change the way you think about computing
• Learn to use the built in tools

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• Costs

• Egress
• Storage
• Connectivity
• I/O on unmanaged vs managed disks.
• Savings
• Identity management
• Everything is incrementally priced based on usage
• Basic services are easy to get into and
  additional functionality adds up.
• Use Patterns and Practices guides.
• Use built in Azure load balancers
• Change the way you think about computers.
• Think in terms of resource3s not metal boxes.
• Learn Azure PowerShell and Azure AD PowerShell
• IaaS is a transition method, not a end goal
• Design for fault tolerance, as Azure plans for
  failure, not just MTBF uptime.
• Consider using standard VMS (IaaS), and then
  special VMs for short term usage , such as data
  mining.

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Design by anticipating cost structure

• Ingress not Egress
• Storage costs in the cloud are different than on
  premise
• Optimize bandwidth, think of the cloud as a WAN
  to help visualize
• Anticipate I/O throttling on unmanaged disks in a
  storage account
• Basic services are easy to get into and
  additional functionality adds up.

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Azure Service Fabric

• Distributed systems platform to package, deploy
  and manage microservices and containers
• Avoids complex infrastructure problems
• High density microservice applications running on
  a shared cluster of machines
• Container deployment and orchestration
• Stateless and stateful services

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Patterns Practices on GitHub
Microsoft Patterns Practices shares much of
their documentation, projects and findings today
on GitHub https//github.com/mspnp For
example, the Microservices Reference
Implementation shares best practices when
designing a microservices solution running on
Azure using Kubernetes https//github.com/mspnp/
microservices-reference- implementation
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Azure Architecture Center
Landing page for reference architectures,
patterns and guidance for solutions on the Azure
Platform
https//docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/
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Azure Resource Manager Templates
Provide a scalable, repeatable method for
deploying Azure resources All resources in the
ARM model are built using JSON
templates https//github.com/Azure/azure-quicksta
rt-templates
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Deploying Resources

• PowerShell
• Cross Platform Command-Line Interface
• Client Libraries
• Visual Studio
• Portal template deployment
• All use the REST API The REST API is available
• here https//docs.microsoft.com/rest/api/resource
  s

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Azure Building Blocks
Designed to simplify deployment of Azure
resources Provides a command line tool and set
of Azure Resource Manager templates https//gith
ub.com/mspnp/template-building-blocks/
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Supported Resources

• Building Blocks support the following resource
  types
• Virtual Networks
• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Extensions
• Load Balancers
• Route Tables
• Network Security Groups
• Virtual Network Gateways
• Virtual Network Connection

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Azure Service Fabric
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On-Premises Lift and Shift
First stage of a migration may be move the
workload direct to IaaS in Azure, having
completed this the potential is to follow the
modernization maturity model
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Web Apps

• Web Apps
• Near instant deployment
• SSL and Custom Domain Names available in some
  tiers
• WebJobs provide background processing for
  independent
• scaling
• Can Scale to larger machines without redeploying
  applications
• Virtual Machines
• Need Availability Sets or Load Balancers to
  prevent simultaneous restarts for maintenance or
  hardware failures
• Additional machines needed for background
  processing

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Azure Storage Accounts
Storage accounts are further split into General
Purpose and Blob Storage
Type of Account General Purpose Standard General Purpose Premium Blob Storage (hot and cool access tiers)
Services Supported Blob, File, Queue services Blob service Blob service
Types of Blobs supported Block blobs, Page blobs and Append blobs Page blobs Block blobs and Append blobs
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