Learning Microsoft Azure电子书

Learning Microsoft Azure

Table of Contents

Learning Microsoft Azure

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure

An overview of cloud computing

Microsoft Azure overview

Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution

Infrastructure capabilities

Platform capabilities

Cost

Decision flow diagrams

Administration of Microsoft Azure systems

Choosing a subscription

Creating a Microsoft Azure account

Adding a subscription

Exploring the portal

The top toolbar

The side toolbar

The bottom toolbar

Examining Microsoft Azure Services

Compute services

Websites

Virtual machines

Mobile services

Cloud services

Data services

SQL Server Database

Storages

HDInsight

Cache

Recovery services

App services

Media services

Service Bus

Visual Studio Online

BizTalk Services

Scheduler

Active Directory (AD)

Network services

Virtual Network

Traffic Manager

Summary

Questions

Answers

2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure

Designing scalable and resilient systems

Systems architecture

A case study of a small business system

System requirements

Identifying subsystems

Customer website design

Administration system design

System integration

Identifying critical systems

Selecting services

Conclusion of the small business case study

A case study of an enterprise system – Azure Bakery

System requirements

Sales requirements

Production requirements

Supply requirements

Identifying subsystems

Sales subsystems

Production subsystems

Supply subsystems

System design

System design – the sales customer phone app

System design – sales order processor

Sales system integration

Identifying critical services

Selecting Microsoft Azure Services

Selecting common services

Messaging services

Authentication

Selecting sales services

Selecting production services

Selecting supply services

Conclusion of an enterprise system case study – Azure Bakery

Designing platform environments

Common environment roles

Example environment sets

Using website deployment slots

Using cloud service staging environments

Summary

Questions

Answers

3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure

Preparing our development environment

Setting up software

Mobile development

The Microsoft Azure SDK

Checking for Visual Studio updates

Creating a website

Configuring a website in the portal

Creating a Visual Studio Online project

Creating a Visual Studio Online account

Creating a Visual Studio Online project

Setting up continuous deployment

Adding a solution to source control

Configuring continuous deployment

Examining the build definition

Setting up alerts

Summary

Questions

Answers

4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database

Creating a database using the Azure management portal

Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations

Creating the data model

Configuring a database context

Linking an authenticated user to the model

Configuring the connection string

Enabling migrations and updating the database

Publishing with migrations

Managing SQL Azure Servers and databases

Managing a database through the portal

Features of the management portal

Managing a database using SSMS

Managing a database through Visual Studio

Using the table designer

Using Azure PowerShell

Choosing a management tool

Backing up and restoring databases

Automated exports

Summary

Questions

Answers

5. Building Azure MVC Websites

Implementing OAuth authentication

Creating a Twitter application

Modifying the external login

Testing the Twitter login

Completing the customer sales website

Modifying the user account panel

Temporary PayConfirm action

Final activities

Adding a custom domain name to a website

Implementing an SSL certificate

Creating CER files

Using OpenSSL to create a PFX certificate

Uploading the certificate

Redirecting all HTTP traffic to HTTPS

Adding Azure AD single sign-on to a website

Configuring AD

Configuring an MVC website for AD single sign-on

Publishing the website with AD single sign-on

Implementing Azure AD group authorization

Creating an AD group

Modifying the application service principal

Implementing AzureAdAuthorizeAttribute

Completing the admin sales website

Summary

Questions

Answers

6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging

Enabling diagnostics

Working with logfiles

Viewing logfiles in Visual Studio

Streaming logs

Filtering stream logs

Downloading logs

Accessing files using FTP

Application logging

Implementing tracing in the application

Application logging to table storage

Querying table data

Application logging to blob storage

Diagnosing a real bug

Setting up the website

Producing an error

Site diagnostics

Extra filesystem settings

Site diagnostics using blob storage

Kudu

Remote debugging

When to use remote debugging

Summary

Questions

Answers

7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration

Introducing Azure Service Bus and topics

Dead-letter queues

Creating a Service Bus topic

Connecting a website to the Service Bus topic

Preparing the website

Creating messaging logic

Sending a message from the controller

The messaging simulator

Setting up the project

Creating a data service

Creating a messaging service

Completing the simulator

Running the simulator

Exploring the topic workspace

The MONITOR tab

The CONFIGURE tab

The SUBSCRIPTIONS tab

Summary

Questions

Answers

8. Building Worker Roles

Introducing cloud services

Exploring worker roles

Creating a worker role

Examining the worker role

Examining the cloud service

Running locally

The compute emulator UI

The storage emulator UI

Publishing a worker role

Building the production order processor

Adding an entity model

Preparing the Service Bus topic

Adding an order processor task

Creating TopicProcessorBase

Implementing TopicProcessorBase

Using OrderTopicProcessor in the worker role

Creating a scheduled work activity

Creating a scheduled job and queue

Configuring a connection string

Adding batch processor tasks

Creating a storage queue processor base

Implementing StorageQueueProcessorBase

Completing the worker role

Testing the production order processor

Testing a single instance

Testing multiple instances

Deleting idle cloud services

Summary

Questions

Answers

9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration

Configuring diagnostics

Adding local diagnostics

Configuring Azure storage diagnostics

Remote debugging

Stopping the debugger

Examining how remote debugging works

Debugging with IntelliTrace

Remote desktop connection

Downloading a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) file

Establishing an RDP connection

Firewall issues

Detecting configuration changes in code

Start-up tasks

Creating a batch script

Adding the task

Environmental variables

Summary

Questions

Answers

10. Web API and Client Integration

Introducing a Web API

Introducing SignalR

Building a Web API service

Creating a Web API project

Creating API controllers

Creating a SignalR hub

Publishing a Web API

Modifying the Web API AD manifest

Adding a client application to AD

Building a client application

Preparing the WPF project

Creating an authentication base class

Creating a data service

Creating a SignalR service

Completing the application

Testing the application

Summary

Questions

Answers

11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services

Introducing Azure mobile services

Creating the customer Azure mobile service

Creating a mobile services project

Exploring the mobile service sample project

The sample table controller

The sample data entity

A sample scheduled job

Mobile service DbContext

WebApiConfig

Cleaning up the project

Integrating with the sales database

Configuring development app settings

Integrating authentication with the sales website

Adding a channel registration API controller

Adding an order controller

Publishing the mobile service

Creating a Windows Phone application

Adding data services

The DataServiceBase class

The DataService class

Setting up push notifications

Modifying the manifest

Adding a channel helper

Notifications debug

Completing the app

Updating the order processor

Updating the admin website

Creating the supply mobile service

Configuring a mobile service for Azure AD auth

Creating the barcode controller

Creating the order controller

Creating the supply Windows Store application

Configuring the Store app for AD authentication

Creating a DataServiceBase class

Summary

Questions

Answers

12. Preparing an Azure System for Production

Project configurations for multiple environments

Adding build configurations to a solution

Website configuration transforms

Application configuration transforms

Cloud configuration

Building website deployment packages

Manually publishing websites to the filesystem

Building web packages on a build server

Building cloud service deployment packages

Building cloud service deployment packages manually

Building cloud service deployment packages on a build server

Deploying web packages to Azure

Deploying cloud packages to Azure

Creating database scripts from Entity Framework Code First Migrations

The go-live checklist

Monitoring live services

The Microsoft Azure portal

The Service Management REST API

Management services alerts

Azure PowerShell

Azure daily service checks

Azure periodic service activities

Azure tool list

Summary

Questions

Answers

Index