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

Orchard CMS
Deploying to Azure,
Orchard CMS 1.5
August 15, 2012
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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
http://orchardcmsboston.org
http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Orchard-CMS-User-Group/
• Contribute modules to gallery
•Enhance the user group site
•Use Orchard to build quality sites.
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Tonight’s Agenda
• Introduction
• Meet new members
• Windows Azure & Orchard
• Orchard CMS 1.5 New Features
• Discuss a User Group Module
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Project Status
• Version 1.5.1 released on July 18th.
• Code hosted on Codeplex
– Discussions
– Releases about every 3 months
• Feature release
• Bug fix release
• Orchard 1.6.0 will be a performance release.
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Nhibernate 3 and 2nd Level Caching
ASP.NET MVC 4 / WebAPI
MySQL Provider
Performance Improvements
• Orchard Harvest 2012!!! September 8-9th
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Demo
• Show building of Orchard Source Code
• Show output of artifacts
• Try and deploy to Azure 
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Demo
• Show switching from Shared to Reserved
• Show setting up different hostnames
• Show modifying Orchard to respond to
different hostnames.
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New In Orchard 1.5
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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"
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What Can We Do?
• Upcoming meeting topics.
• Let’s contribute a module to the gallery!
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