RightScale User Conference NYC 2011 -
Raphael Simon - Senior Systems Architect, RightScale
Shivan Bindal - Product Manager, RightScale
Deploying Windows-based applications in the cloud has historically been challenging because the available machine images were often inconsistent across regions/clouds and they lacked simple remote control. Add in the inflexibility that comes with pre-baked application stacks along with a lack of consistent automation, and you have the recipe for a sudden onset migraine. With RightScale ServerTemplates™, you can dynamically configure, launch, and manage your Windows software stacks in the cloud. We'll showcase a proven setup for a scalable, production .NET web application and present a live demo in which we'll use ServerTemplates with built-in Microsoft best practices to launch a SQL Server-based web application.
14. MultiCloud Image Collection of RightImages that represent a standard configuration across multiple clouds MCI: Windows Server 2008 AWS US-West AWS AP-Singapore AWS AP-Tokyo AWS EU AWS US-East Rackspace
19. ServerTemplates: A Closer Look Starts with a multicloud image Defines base software Adds: Boot, operational and decommission RightScripts and/or recipes for configuration Monitoring with alert definitions for automation ServerTemplates are versioned Reproduce exact configuration ServerTemplates can be published/imported Sharing / reuse
20. How does this all work? RightScale Secure and Fault-Tolerant Protocol RightLink runs with Admin privileges on the Server and talks to RightScale through a secure and fault-tolerant protocol. RightLink runs with Admin privileges on the Server and talks to RightScale through a secure and fault-tolerant protocol.
48. SQL Server ServerTemplate – Deep Dive Smart Volume Configuration VSS backed safe snapshot policy for DB Backups Best practice disk configuration for system and user databases Best practice SQL Server configuration Mixed authentication mode Tempdb Built in monitoring and alerts on cpu, memory and disk
49. Demo – Scalable .NET App IIS deploying .NET Application at boot with HAProxy LB SQL Server DB tier with EBS volume snapshots for backup Browser DNS LB App N App 1 App 2 … Master DB
50. What’s our priority next? More and more ServerTemplates! (Tell us what you want) Windows in Private Cloud RightLink
51. Questions? Raphael Simon - Senior Systems Architect, RightScale ShivanBindal -Product Manager, RightScale June 8th, 2011