Orchard CMS Deploying to Azure, Orchard CMS 1.5 August 15, 2012 Copyright 2012 Cloud Construct, LLC

Orchard CMS Boston User Group Meeting #5 Deploying to Azure / Orchard CMS 1.5 Internet – SID: Cambridge Pass: Wa0815 Microsoft N.E.R.D. Building Copyright 2012 Cloud Construct, LLC Contribute modules to gallery Enhance the user group site Use Orchard to build quality sites.

Tonight’s Agenda Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC Introduction Meet new members Windows Azure & Orchard Orchard CMS 1.5 New Features Discuss a User Group Module

Project Status Version released on July 18 th. Code hosted on Codeplex – Discussions – Releases about every 3 months Feature release Bug fix release Orchard will be a performance release. – Nhibernate 3 and 2 nd Level Caching – ASP.NET MVC 4 / WebAPI – MySQL Provider – Performance Improvements Orchard Harvest 2012!!! September 8-9th Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Orchard & Azure Windows Azure Cloud Service – Runs in a WebRole – Not a durable file system. – Blob Storage and SQL Azure Storage Windows Azure Websites – Runs on a Shared Server Instance – Durable network file system – File System and SQL Azure Storage Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Orchard as a Cloud Service Tenant Data is Stored in Blob – App_Data – Media – Settings.txt Modules and Themes are not replicated. – You need to install locally and then repackage. Tenant Data uses IShellSettingsManager in AzureBlobStorageProvider Media – AzureBlobStorageProvider Content Items – SQL Azure Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Orchard as a Cloud Service Tenant Data is Stored in Blob – App_Data – Media – Settings.txt Modules and Themes are not replicated. – You need to install locally and then repackage. Tenant Data uses IShellSettingsManager in AzureBlobStorageProvider Media – AzureBlobStorageProvider Content Items – SQL Azure You need to reference all of the projects and themes in the project so they get deployed to Azure. Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Search Module Example Lucene indexer writes to the file system When the File System is Recycled you lose your index files. A background task will go and rebuild it if it does not exist. This works in Azure without needing to write to Blob Storage. Possible out of sync search indexes on each node. Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Demo Show building of Orchard Source Code Show output of artifacts Try and deploy to Azure Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Windows Azure Websites Network file system is shared across instances. Less IO performance. Network Data, whole site is there. Scaling is just web servers, so vertical scaling. 10 Free Websites on shared 100 Websites on reserved Dynamic compilation breaks because file watcher does not work on Network File System. You need to push a pre-compiled site. Even compile modules. Possibly broken in gallery, so pull down code, rebuild and deploy. Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Demo Show creating new website in Windows Azure Websites Download publish profile and utilize WEB PI. You can edit in Visual Studio and then push again with Web PI. Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Multi-Tenancy Host multiple sites in one Orchard instance. Same app domain, different content and configuration. Multi-tenancy is particularly nice in a Windows Azure environment, because one deployment to Azure can easily support multiple websites. Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

Demo Show switching from Shared to Reserved Show setting up different hostnames Show modifying Orchard to respond to different hostnames. Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

New In Orchard 1.5 Content Picker Custom Forms Enhanced Navigation Admin Search Enhanced Anti Spam Content Permissions Layout placement: Placement.info files can now use the '/' character to specify Layout zone targets likes this: "/AsideSecond:10" Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC

What Can We Do? Upcoming meeting topics. Let’s contribute a module to the gallery! Copyright 2011 Cloud Construct, LLC