Book Image

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
Book Image

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By: Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing WAP portal's accessibility and certificates


By default, WAP websites use server hostnames as website URL, default port number, and self-signed certificates. In this topic, we will change the website's name, that is, URL, default port (such as 30081 to 443 for tenant portal) and SSL certificate with internal or public certificates as required. It is recommended to customize these portals' configuration for better security and user experience.

Assume a user experience of a tenant portal, also known as a customer portal, with complex enough URL and a custom port to add with disturbing security warnings of untrusted SSL certificates. Windows Azure Pack provides flexibilities to change URLs and ports along with trusted SSL certificates for WAP websites for improved security and smooth end user experience.

Before getting things into action, let's understand which websites come into the picture for the user logins (Admin or Tenant) WAP portal use claim-based authentication mechanism during...