One
thing I really miss is the the opportunity to auto-scale applications in
Windows Azure.
You can
get around this by yourself, but it requires some creativity.
“…this
release includes a comprehensive set of technical content, including:
- Two new application blocks:
- Autoscaling Application Block (“Wasabi”) to help
you to automatically scale both web and worker roles in Windows Azure by
dynamically provisioning/decommissioning roles or throttling.
- Transient Fault Handling Application Block
(“Topaz”) to help you make your Windows Azure application more resilient
to transient errors when you are using these cloud services: SQL Azure,
Windows Azure Storage, Windows Azure Caching, and Windows Azure Service
Bus.
- One new configuration source:
- Blob configuration source to load configuration
information from a blob in your Azure Storage account so that you can
modify it without having to redeploy your application to Windows Azure.
- Windows PowerShell cmdlets to browse and manipulate
the Autoscaling Application Block settings directly from Windows
PowerShell.
- Protected configuration provider to allow you to
encrypt sections of your configuration files in Windows Azure.
- Updated database creation scripts so that you can
migrate your code using the database trace listeners of the Logging
Application Block and the Caching Application Block.
- A substantial collection of experience guidance help
you ramp up quickly, including:
- Reference
documentation
- Developer’s
guide
- Tailspin
Surveys sample application (reference implementation)
- On-premises sample application for hosting the
Autoscaling Application Block and exploratory testing (included with
source under (install
location)/WindowsAzure/Autoscaling/Hosts/ConsoleAutoscaler)
- Planning worksheet for Wasabi to help you understand
the interactions between different timing values governing the overall
autoscaling regime.
The recommended way to obtain the Enterprise Library
Integration Pack for Windows Azure is as NuGet packages. You can also download self-extracting zip
files with binaries, sources (including tests) and the reference implementation
from MSDN. The configuration tool is available as a Visual
Studio extension package (VSIX) from the Visual
Studio Gallery. “
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