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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition
Sep, 2014 | 422 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition
Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure
Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure
Introduction
Setting up solutions and projects to work with Cloud Services
Debugging a Cloud Service locally with either Emulator or Emulator Express
Publishing a Cloud Service with options from Visual Studio
Debugging a Cloud Service remotely with Visual Studio
Configuring the service model for a Cloud Service
Providing a custom domain name for a Cloud Service
Implementing HTTPS in a web role
Using local storage in an instance
Hosting multiple websites in a web role
Using startup tasks in a Microsoft Azure role
Handling changes to the configuration and topology of a Cloud Service
Managing upgrades and changes to a Cloud Service
Configuring diagnostics in Cloud Services
2
Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites
Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites
Introduction
Deploying a Website
Administering and monitoring a Website
Source versioning and continuous integration with Git and TFS
Logging abstraction from .NET and PHP
Deploying Java with Azure Websites
3
Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure
Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure
Introduction
Managing the Azure Storage service
Connecting to the Azure Storage service
Connecting to the storage emulator
Managing access control for containers and blobs
Creating a shared access signature for a container or blob
Using a container-level access policy
Setting properties and metadata for a blob
Using blob directories
Creating and using a blob snapshot
Creating and using the root container for blobs
Uploading blocks to a block blob
Uploading a VHD into a page blob
Downloading a blob asynchronously
Using retry policies with blob operations
Leasing a blob and implementing distributed locks
Using the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
4
Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database
Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database
Introduction
Creating a SQL Database server and database
Managing SQL Database logins and firewall rules
Developing a SQL Database with Visual Studio
Connecting to a SQL Database with ADO.NET
Connecting to a SQL Database with Entity Framework
Connecting to a SQL Database from PHP and Java
Migrating a database to a SQL Database
Leveraging backup solutions with SQL Database
Monitoring SQL Database with the dynamic management views
Handling connection failures to a SQL Database
5
Going NoSQL with Azure Tables
Going NoSQL with Azure Tables
Introduction
Creating a table
Inserting, updating, deleting, and querying data against the Table service
Using entity group transactions
Using continuation tokens and server-side paging
Going inside continuation tokens and segmented queries
Handling entity serialization events
Facilitating NoSQL with client-side projection
6
Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus
Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus
Introduction
Managing Azure Storage queues
Managing Azure Service Bus queues
Adding messages to a Storage queue
Adding messages to a Service Bus queue
Receiving messages with Storage queues
Receiving messages with Service Bus queues
Implementing publish/subscribe with Service Bus topics
Implementing relayed messaging with the Service Bus
Communication between .NET and Java with the Service Bus and AMQP
7
Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries
Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries
Introduction
Setting up the management client
Managing the Storage service
Deploying Cloud Services
Inspecting and managing Cloud Services
Managing and using the Azure Scheduler
Monitoring and automating infrastructure operations
Automating SQL Database operations
Using Azure PowerShell
8
Going In-memory with Azure Cache
Going In-memory with Azure Cache
Introduction
Building a simple cache for applications
Using local cache and notifications
Diagnosing cache and optimizing performance
Using advanced caching features
Using Redis Cache in Azure
Index
Index

Inspecting and managing Cloud Services

As we saw in the Deploying Cloud Services recipe, we can automate the deployment operations of Cloud Services to build rich automation solutions. When a Cloud Service has at least one deployment with any role, under the hood, there are virtual machines (also known as Instances) that hold the code of the web application or the worker process.

These VMs run a specific Windows Server OS, also called Azure Guest OS. Each Azure Guest OS is a modified version of Windows Server based on 2008 (now deprecated), 2008 R2, 2012, and so on.

We use the OperatingSystems property of the ComputeManagementClient object to obtain the currently available Azure operating system's versions. In this collection, OSes are grouped per family, which is a logical group based on the major version of Guest OS (that is, 2008, 2012, and so on).

In the Deploying Cloud Services recipe, we saw how to deploy and update a running role. In this recipe, we will see how to inspect it, walking...

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