integrating rightscale, windows, and .net for fun and profit - rightscale compute 2013

april25-26

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cloud success starts here

Integrating RightScale, Windows and

.net for Fun and ProfitGordon Bailey, Director of Technology/IT | Koupon Media

Patrick Moore, Director of Operations | Koupon Media

Patrick McClory, Solutions Architect | RightScale

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Agenda

• API 1.5 Overview

• RightScale.netClient Intro and Overview

• Demos…

• MSBuild and Dev/Test in the cloud

• Advanced PowerShell Management with RightScale + API 1.5

• PHB Demo

• Insight from KouponMedia

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RightScale API 1.5

• REST API with JSON and XML response types

• RightScale core functionality exposed

• http://reference.rightscale.com/api1.5/index.html

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Mapping REST to .net

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RightScale.netClient Overview

• Generic wrapper for the RightScale API 1.5 toolset

• Media Types = Classes/Object Model

• Resources = Static methods per class

• A couple of assumptions made:

• Generally, resources map to media types 1:1

• For Resources with multiple urls, more descriptive names are better:• Instance.index() and Instance.index_ServerArray(serverArrayId)

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Demo – Dev/Test with MSBuild

TFS + Windows Azure + RightScale

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Use Case/Scenario

• We‘re running a .net shop using Team Foundation Services

2012 (TFS) for source control

• Standard web application being developed

• We‘ll use the Mileage Stats demo app

• Slightly modified to use Microsoft SQL Server instead of SQL CE

• DB Backups and scripts available for download

• Application is nearing time to be released to production

• Ability to test in multiple environments rapidly is critical

• Build from local consistently with how production builds are

created

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General SDLC Workflow

Shameless plug… check out my SDLC/ALM blog post!

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Dev/Test with MSBuild

Demo

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Organizing your build with MSBuild

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Dev/Test with MSBuild

Demo

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Resources

• Source code for reference app in github

• Team Foundation Server or another MSBuild orchestration

utility like CruiseControl.net or TeamCity

• Web Deploy 3.0 installed on all machines packaging builds

• RightScale Support page on MSDeploy

• Some more detail in another blog post

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Demo – Advanced PowerShell

ManagementPowerShell + RightScale

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Use Case/Scenario

• Familiar platform for Windows Sysadmins

• Leverage RightScale within other automation processes already

scripted

• Manage our Dev/Test Environments from the MSBuild Demo

• On the way out the door—let‘s make sure we tear the instances down

• Build a scheduled task to stand them up again in the morning with the

latest stable build

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Using PowerShell to build the environment

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PowerShell + RightScale API 1.5

Environment Tear-Down Demo

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Resources

• Cmdlet code is in Github

• Also builds a package as a part of the post-build events on the

RightScale.netClient solution

• PowerShell API direct call examples on support.rightscale.com

• Will give you examples from curl, PowerShell and sometimes the

RightAPIClient ruby gem

• Other PowerShell references

• ss64.com/ps

• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7097

• http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2011/12/12/powershell-quick-reference-

guides-and-cheat-sheets.html

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PHB DemoNetduino + RightScale + Windows Azure

(among others)

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Use Case/Scenario

• Disclaimer: this is not a serious demo

• Let‘s explore a bit of what‘s possible now that we have a

common hook within the .net Framework (v4.5)

• Taking a little inspiration from ‗Wally‘:

• Let‘s figure out the craziest way to enable laziness

• Need to not loose our jobs either—we‘ve got to get some work done

• Goal: Whenever the boss is on the way, let‘s do something that looks

impressive

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Patrick‘s Desk Situation

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Really going out of our way to ‗not work‘

• We‘ve built a motion detector using a netduino and a few other

parts:

• Netduino Plus 1

• HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

• Microtivity IM 161 LCD display

• HC-SR501 Human Sensor Module

• Wireless network bridge

• Some code to make it work

• A .net Micro Framework console app to drive the sensors and logic

• Netduino SDK 4.2.2

• Netduino Plus 1 Firmware Upgrade to 4.2.0

• A small service application to take input and do that ‗something‘ we need

to be doing (i.e. launching a 3-tier stack for a developer)

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When triggered…

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PHB Demo

Demo

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Resources

• Demo code on github

• Hardware as listed earlier

• A patient boss (while you work out the glitches)

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Koupon Media

How we‘ve grown with RightScale

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Operations Maturity

• PAST – where we came from

• Too long, too many doing too little, too much• Time

• Servers

• Cost

• PRESENT – what we realized

• Do more with less• Small company embracing cloud, mobility, and social solutions

• Scalable solution

• Easier, Efficient, Faster

• FUTURE – how we can get better

• Visibility for all

• Never enough mentality

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RS Professional Experience

• Learning to ride a bike for the first time

• Training wheels, helmet, knee pads, elbow pads

• Confidence comes from within…. AND those teaching us

• Deployments, templates, scripts oh my!

• ―Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and

you feed him for a lifetime.‖

• Not just a face in the crowd

• Personal, day-to-day service

• ―People work with people they like‖• http://www.rightscale.com/about_us/top-ten-myths-about-working-at-rightscale.php

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Factual Results: time & money

• Actual results of all the who-ha

• How much was our time worth?

• Connecting time & money

• Realizing where you need to adjust in order to grow

• Spending what you need to not what you think you need to

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Factual Results: time & money

• Time: sometimes the easy way is the Right way

• PAST: 2-3 hours• Manual

• Tedious

• Human error

• PRESENT: 45 mins – 1 hour• 4 steps

• Consistent

• FUTURE: 25 mins flat (our new PR goal)• Quick, easy, efficient

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Factual Results: time & money

• Cost: cutting branches off the money tree

• PAST: X servers costing $x.xx / month• Not utilizing full to even quarter of server capability

• Not utilizing all of an already paid for service

• PRESENT: Y servers cost = X servers cost• Fully customizable templates, scripts, servers

• Utilizing more and more of a server / service

• MSDN - Scheduler

• FUTURE: • Not taking the shortcuts but understanding what we need compared to what we want

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Contact Info

• Gordon Bailey• gbailey@kou.pn

• Patrick Moore• patrickm@kou.pn

• Patrick McClory – Solutions Architect• patrick@rightscale.com

• @patrickmcclory

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmcclory

• https://github.com/patrickmcclory/

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Questions?

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Reference Slides

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RightScale.netClient status

• Still in Alpha – not feature

complete/parity with API 1.5 – 14

Resources to complete

• Demo-ready, feedback welcome, but

not production complete as of yet

• Published on nuget and available on

github

• Lots of functional tests for existing work

within a unit test project – dependent

on some specific setup, but designed

to test functionality

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VolumeTypes.show(:cloudid, :id)

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RightScale.netClient Design/Architecture

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Class Design

• Generic RightScaleObjectBase<T>

• Derived base class for

taggable objects

• Will likely expand as

development continues to

manage globally used

concepts

• Tags

• Actions

• Other property-level items

Base Class Management

• Centralized logic for all API

calls

• Cached authentication

mechanism for all calls

within the same application

scope

• One and done

Singleton for Web Client

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RightScale.netClient.Base Classes

• RightScaleObjectBase<T> handles generic

properties and actions

• Type parameter is required to manage serialization and

deserialization of JSON objects

• Handles single and list deserialization

• Centralized place to parse and manage links collection

• TaggableResourceBase<T>• For objects that are able to receive tags—separate base

class derived from RightScaleObjectBase<T>

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RightScale.netClient.Core.APIClient

• Single point of interaction for all HTTP methods

• Handles username/password/account number or

OAuth authentication for API 1.5

• Automatically authenticates if not already

authenticated

• Auth information can be sored in

app.config/machine.config under specific keys

Singleton Implementation for API Caller

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