Does anybody know if red5 can be deployed on Mircosoft Azure Cloud? The only hint I got was in MSDN forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/d58fdffe-27a4-4e77-8683-4f58fc037ff9
Thanks!
Marc
Assuming the JDK usage is fairly normal, you should be able to make this work using a worker role that handles traffic and uses p/invoke to launch the red5 service.
Honestly, though, its likely you'll be blazing your own trail on this one.
I would recommend giving it a try ... you'll never know until ya know. Then post blocking questions here, vs just "does it work". Azure is new, so a lot of these "edge" scenarios are just waiting for someone to give them a whirl. Be the first :)
good luck
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Does anyone know if Windows Azure Pack is expected to offer the Storage service any time soon? I have a client who's very interested in the technology, but only if it has storage....
I have been tracking this thread for a long time, I have a good article about the feature in Azure Stack Preview release,
https://azurestack.eu/2015/06/microsoft-azure-stack-storage-explained-part-i/
It is a good read on what to expect and how to prepare for the Azure Stack Storage. I am for one very excited about this feature as it will surely bring down the cost of maintaining tons of HA file servers for each team. Having a self service portal for secure HA file management on on-premise should put a smile on a lot of IT Admins!.
Hope the answer helps, Please take a look at the Article. It is not for the faint of heart as it is very deep and heavy :), but worth the pretty pictures.
Happy to help !, yours truly - CB
Even at current preview pricing, I'd still like to be able to turn off the service(s) to save some $$. But I'd rather not delete them if I don't have to. Anyone know how to do this?
That is unfortunately not possible with the current version and I fully agree with you that this should be possible. Because with the current model, we cannot benefit from the cloud flexibility that Azure is providing with almost all other services.
I have given this feedback to the team already, but we'll see what will come from it ;)
According to the documentation, it should be possible:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/biztalk-service-state-chart/
So, it's a bug ;) I hope this means they will fix it sooner.
I'm answering my own question almost a year later. I've found two options.
Option 1: Backup/Restore WABS service using the Azure web UI.
Option 2: Use 'suspend'/'resume' functionality using the RESTful API.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn232419.aspx)
I hope this helps someone!
I just spent the last two hours trying to walk through Microsoft's "Web Services and Identity in Windows Azure Exercise 1: Using Windows Identity Foundation with a WCF Service in Windows Azure" which purports to show how to host a secured WCF service in Azure.
Unfortunately, the walkthrough is ridiculously complicated with a whopping 151 steps. I've tried to complete the first part of the walkthrough 3 separate times but without any luck. I'm pretty sure I'm following the instructions exactly as written but there's so much subtlety in there (certificate setup, configuration chaanges, etc.) that it's likely that I'm missing a critical detail. In either case 151 steps is clearly an order of magnitude too difficult for mere mortals to follow.
Anyway, any help in this rgard would be greatly appreciated....
Check out the BidNow sample. That is a lot less complicated. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample
Also, check out the samples on http://acs.codeplex.com/
There's a pretty good article walking through this in the December 2010 MSDN Magazine - the fact that it's titled "Re-Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service" says a lot. You have to "re-introduce" things that no one understood or used when you "introduced" it. :)
I toyed around with Azure in January this year and though it looked great in theory, I wasn't even able to deploy a simple dummy application due to various bugs I encountered.
I'd like to have another look, however I don't want to spend another two days in vain. If you have recently tried Azure, I would be interested to hear about your experiences.
Thanks,
Adrian
Yes, Xbox Live, Microsoft's BPOS suite, Live Messenger, and more all run on Azure.
If it can run Xbox Live, it can run your production app.
I'm using Azure for production stuff, and I've found it reliable, but pretty hard work. Hard work because:
The reference documentation is minimalist. Many functions are covered by a one sentence explanation and no examples.
While being much better than nothing, not everything that works on the development fabric will work on production.
When things go wrong (especially when a role keeps recycling) it can be hard to work out what the problem is, although remote desktop can help a lot.
Windows Azure works for us and allows to deploy rather complex business solutions with rather impressive auto-scaling capabilities.
We have already migrated all of the major projects towards Azure so far.
If still in doubt, take a look at 50+ case studies here.
Visual Studio 2010 added a BUNCH of functionality towards Azure development. I think it is enough to move Azure up to snuff for production apps.
However, if you don't have Studio 2010, I would wait till you can get it.
Another example that I like (I was personally involved a teeny weeny bit so I'm biased :) ). All Twitter/Facebook results on Bing.com are piped through an engine that runs on Windows Azure. It consumes multiple realtime feeds and surfaces them on Bing. You can do the math on the scale since it is crunching on all of Twitter's data and has been doing so for months
I would like to know what kind of things in IIS are really important to you on a day to day basis? And what should I look into initially to get started? Any articles/books/tutorials are welcome.
Have you thought about getting into some Virtual Lab, such as:
http://virtuallabs.iis.net/
This link is full of resources also: http://learn.iis.net/
The labs are a good place to start. Philosophically, the biggest thing to remember about IIS is it really is just a "phone switch" of sorts--it patches requests through to the appropriate handlers.
The other big thing to understand, IMHO, is the underlying windows security model. IIS rides on it and most folks who get into trouble are actually having trouble with windows security, not IIS. But the problems manifest themselves through IIS which can lead to some confusion.