Sitecore on Azure
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The document provides an overview of Sitecore on Azure, including: - An introduction to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS on Azure and the advantages of each approach - Options for deploying Sitecore on Azure, including using virtual machines or Azure App Services - A comparison of estimated monthly costs for a hypothetical Sitecore implementation on IaaS vs. PaaS - A discussion of other Azure services that can be used with Sitecore like Azure Search and considerations around data residency and licensing - An overview of managed services options for outsourcing the management of a Sitecore on Azure environment
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Sitecore on Azure
- 1. WE’RE ABOUT TO START
- 2. WHAT’S ALL THIS NOISE? SITECORE ON AZURE
- 3. Hi, my name is Jason. Senior Solution Architect. Sitecore, ALM, and DevOps consultant. Stopper of slapshots. Sometimes. Dad!
- 4. 01 Azure 101 (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) 03 Why IaaS or PaaS? 04 A Look at the Numbers 05 ManagedServices 06 Questions? 02 Sitecore on Azure
- 5. IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, OH MY! AZURE 101
- 7. Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34137.the-need-for-azure-stack-in-your-data-center.aspx Division of responsibility
- 8. Advantages On Premise: Complete control over all aspects. IaaS: No need to worry about steel and cables, easy mapping for migration from On Premises. PaaS: No managing servers or operating systems, focus on the application. Flexible real-time scaling options. SaaS: Focus on using software, not managing. Good for orgs without Ops teams.
- 9. Maturity Model Automated Build Source Control Branching Strategy Continuous Integration Data Model Change Tracking Automated Deploy to Test environments Test Case management Bug tracking Requirements Tracking Unit Testing Security Testing Accessibility Testing Automated Browser Testing Automated Regression Tests Automated Performance Tests Infastructure As Code Continuous Delivery Continuous Deployment Automated Server Patching Continuous Monitoring Monitoring tools Cloud Deployments Clustered Deployments Automated Prod Deployments Automated Prod Deployment Package Release Management Real-time Reports Automated Backups Automated Rollbacks/Restores Generated Release Notes Release Notes Status Reports
- 10. FLUFFY CLOUDS SITECORE ON AZURE
- 11. Why Sitecore + Azure? Familiarity of Windows Built on .NET, Sitecore uses the technology that your IT department already knows. Infinite scalability Easily scales up and down as demand changes.* Rapidly deploy Sitecore on Azure without worrying IT. Speed to market The only enterprise- grade cloud Microsoft Azure ensures that Sitecore® Experience Database™ is secure. Always on Never miss a beat; always be there for your customers. Interoperability Integrates seamlessly with your existing back-end systems and marketing investments. Accident protection Reliable and redundant copies of your data and automatic failover protection. Pay-as-you-go Only pay for the power and capacity you’re using.* *Customers will need to ensure the proper number of content delivery servers from Sitecore to meet scaling requirements.
- 12. © 2001-2016 Sitecore Corporation A/S. All rights reserved. Sitecore® and Own the Experience® are registered trademarks of Sitecore Corporation A/S. All other brand and product names are the property of their respective owners. 12 SitecoreAzureOptions
- 13. Sitecore on Azure VMs Any version of Sitecore, but some Azure services require 8.2 • Azure Search • Application Insights (for logs, counters) Take advantage of Traffic Manager! • PRO TIP: Watch out for apex domain mapping in DNS
- 14. Sitecore on App Services Requires 8.2 u1+ New tools: • Sitecore Azure Toolkit • Infrastructure as Code with ARM Templates • Autoscaling! NOTE: Not all modules supported for App Services yet
- 15. © 2001-2016 Sitecore Corporation A/S. All rights reserved. Sitecore® and Own the Experience® are registered trademarks of Sitecore Corporation A/S. All other brand and product names are the property of their respective owners. 15 Easy deployment – One Example Delivery ServersVisitors Authors Management Servers Content Management Databases Health Monitoring Content Delivery Databases Processing Servers Search Collection Database Session State Reporting Database Reporting Servers
- 16. BYOM - Bring your own Mongo mLab is one possible Database- as-a-Service offering. Also can provision yourself on Azure VMs. DocumentDB not technically supported yet.
- 17. Geographic region Azure Region Sitecore Marketplace All Services Available Web Apps Service Azure Search Azure SQL Redis Cache Application Insights mLab* mLab Sandbox* Canada Canada East x x x x Canada Central x x x x x x United States East US x x x x x x x x x East US 2 x x x Central US x x x x North Central US x x x x x x South Central US x x x x x x x x West Central US x x x x x West US x x x x x x x West US 2 x x x Azure Government US GOV Virginia x x x US GOV Iowa x x x US DOD East x x US DOD Central x x Brazil Brazil South x x x x x Korea Korea Central x x x Korea South x x x Japan Japan West x x x x x x Japan East x x x x Asia Pacific Southeast Asia x x x x x x East Asia x x x x x x Australia Australia East x x x x x x Australia South East x x x x India Central India x x x x West India x x x South India x x x United Kingdom UK South x x x x x x UK West x x x Europe West Europe x x x x x x x x North Europe x x x x x x x x x Germany Germany Central x x x Germany North East x x x Regions 4 Regions have all services (including mLab) • East US • South Central US • West Europe • North Europe 9 more regions have all services (including mLab) except Application Insights
- 18. A word on Application Insights
- 19. AZURE PRICING A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
- 20. The comparison models IaaS PaaS CD (S2)CM (B2) Processing and Reporting (B1) VisitorsAuthorsVisitorsAuthors CD1 (A3) CD2 (A3) CM (A3)
- 21. Sticker price (USD /Month) IaaS PaaS $803.52 Content Management, A3 Content Delivery x2, A3 $372.00(+autoscaling) Content Management, B2 Content Delivery, S2 • Autoscale to 2 CDs based on rules Processing Service, B1 Reporting Service, B1
- 22. That makes no sense, Jason, you must be crazy.
- 23. What I didn’t tell you… IaaS Resources PaaS Resources A3 (All 3 instances) • 4 cores • 7GB RAM • 285GB disk B2 (CM) • 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM, 10GB Storage S2 (CD) • 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM, 50GB Storage B1 (Processing/Reporting) • 1 core, 1.75GB RAM, 10GB Storage
- 24. EQUIVALENT PAAS HARDWARE? $3,571.20 USD/month (4 P3, 4 cores, 7GB RAM, 250GB Storage)
- 25. Less is more No OS: Behind the scenes. No logs: Application Insights. No indexes: Azure Search, etc. Dedicated roles: Processing/Reporting. Easy scaling: Autoscaling for horizontal, manual for vertical.
- 26. THE RIGHT FIT WHY IAAS OR PAAS?
- 27. IaaS or PaaS? Virtual Machines App Services • Using modules not yet supported on App Services • Transitioning from On Premise quickly • Need to minimize complexity of topology • Predictable monthly costs • Low or unpredictable traffic but high availability needs • Elevated DevOps needs (Infrastructure as Code, Blue/Green deployments, etc.) • Minimal Ops team availability • Spend on usage as needed
- 28. Data residency Have data residency requirements? Plan your regions appropriately! Things to check: • Application Insights • Azure Search • xDB data in Mongo
- 29. A note on Licensing Server-based licenses for vertical scaling scenarios. • Great when HA/DR not in the mix. Consumption-based licensing for horizontal scaling scenarios. • Best fit for PaaS, especially if you are low-traffic. As usual, your Sitecore sales rep is your best friend here.
- 30. THAT’S TOO MUCH FOR ME MANAGED SERVICES
- 31. Why Managed Services? Black box the whole thing. Leave it to the experts. Not ready for 24-hour monitoring commitments. Tired of the 2am call to go fix the server. No need to keep up on the latest infrastructure requirements.
- 32. Cost of ownership Can your team be better used doing something more valuable in the organization? Does your team have the headspace and time to keep up with the latest and greatest? What risk do you currently have in the team due to knowledge silos?
- 33. Balancing risk and reward Choose level of service management: • Servers (IaaS) • Environment (PaaS) • Application (SaaS) Remember me?
- 34. AN OPPORTUNITY? Sitecore Azure app services may help commoditize managed services and increase competition in the space. Will managed services become a low-cost, no-brainer, option?
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Editor's Notes
- #5: If there are fewer items – center the agenda vertically
- #13: Sitecore can run in any of these environments, we are not pushing only Web Apps. All of the options have their advantages and disadvantages. Cloud services can be used, but we do not provide tools for that Web Apps are great, but they come with limitations (memory, CPU, etc.)
- #14: Traffic Manager allows you to abstract away your domain management from your load balancers, virtual machines, etc. This means you can easily tear down and build up behind the scenes without needing to mess around with your DNS. Especially useful for blue/green deployments or geoegraphic disaster recovery. Unfortunately, Traffic Manager does not have an IP address. This means you need to use a CNAME mapping which can’t be used for apex domains. If we are visiting www.example.org, that’s fine, we can map www to the TM. However, if we visit example.org this is an “A” record which requires an IP address and you will need to work around this. Microsoft has acknowledged this as a limitation of the service. Some DNS providers have ‘alias’ support or redirection support to try to get around this, but careful about redirect services with HTTPS. You need valid certificates.
- #16: There no single option to deploy Sitecore in Azure. We support everything: on-premise, hybrid, cloud Here is an example of it: The Visitors connect to the Delivery Servers running on Web Apps, which connects to the Azure SQL databases. The collection database is mongo DB and the Session State is stored in Azure Redis Cache. Sitecore now by default in Azure using Azure Search, but Solr and Coveo can also be used. The Authors connect to a different set of Azure Web Apps which is connected to another Azure SQL databases. From the Content Management environment Sitecore publish information to the Content Delivery environment and using the also Azure Search. In the background the Processing Servers building the Reporting Database which can be accessed through the Reporting Servers. The Health Monitoring is done via the Azure Application Insights. Web Apps Sitecore uses separate Web Apps to host the Content Management, Content Delivery, Reporting, and Processing web site roles. Each Web App is placed in its own App Service Plan to enable it to scale separately. Minimum Tier / Size: Standard S2 Azure SQL Sitecore uses Azure SQL to store all of its content and analytics databases. Databases can be split across management and delivery database servers. Minimum Tier / Size: Standard S2 Azure Redis Cache Sitecore uses Azure Redis Cache as its default session state backend. The session state component stores information from active visitors to be used by the content delivery and personalization process. Minimum Tier / Size: Standard C1 mongoDB The collection database (MongoDB) is the primary storage for all analytics information and the registry of contacts and engagement automation states. In Azure it is recommended to use a Virtual Machine to host MongoDB or use a service such as mLab. Azure Search Sitecore uses Azure Search as its default search engine. Azure Search is a fully managed search-as-a-service that offers scalable full-text search. Minimum Tier / Size: Standard S1 Application Insights Sitecore uses Application Insights for all of its Health Monitoring needs. Application Insights can be used to search for all Sitecore logs, performance counters, custom telemetry, and dependant requests. Minimum Tier / Size: Standard
- #19: Application Insights most like New Relic, if you are familiar with that. It works on telemetry data that has been uploaded from all the instances. This allows you to use Application Insights even if it isn’t in the region where the rest of your services are. It takes more time to send the data to Application Insights across regions due to network latency, but there is no performance impact to your applications.
- #22: These prices are for the Sitecore instance infrastructure only. Traffic Managers/Load Balancers/Mongo/SOLR/Azure Search/Azure SQL/Redis not included.