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Okay, good morning!
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How many of you here have used hybrid services before? Wow, that's nice!
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Before we get started, I will tell you a bit about what happened today. First of all, a little bit about myself: I'm a program manager with Microsoft.
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You can find me on Twitter if you have any questions. For the past several years, my focus has been on trying to close the gap and build bridges between Microsoft technologies and various open-source software platforms.
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Ruby is a part of that. Today, I will give you an overview of what you can do with Ruby on the Microsoft cloud, because, like any cloud, there are numerous services available including storage services, authentication, databases, and more.
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I will also talk about the Azure SDK for Ruby, which allows you to programmatically access these services from your Ruby applications. I'll explain how to generate Ruby SDKs for your API applications. Basically, if you create a web API application on Azure, you automatically receive the metadata to create your SDK, including Ruby integration.
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You just run a script, and you get your client SDK for free, which you can use in your Ruby application. Finally, I will share information about the upcoming web browser from Microsoft, a project called Spartan, and how you can test your web applications with this browser without having to install it on your system or run Windows.
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Feel free to ask questions at any time. I might not be able to answer some of your questions right away, but I’ll make sure to follow up later. Just to clarify, I’m not a Ruby developer; I will probably need to take some questions offline.
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So, if you want to get up and running quickly with Ruby on the Microsoft cloud, the good news is that there are several pre-configured virtual machine images available. You can create a virtual machine without installation needed; everything is already set up. Once you have an Azure subscription, you can create a VM and connect to it easily.
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One of the best images we have is created by a company called Bitnami, which offers a full stack including Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Nginx, and various gems. You just go to the Azure portal, select the image you want, specify where you want to deploy it and the size of the virtual machine, and you're pretty much good to go.
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Additionally, if you want to try Microsoft Azure, you can create an account and receive a certain amount of compute hours for free. Normally, when you register for a trial account, you need to enter your credit card information; however, I also have a few Azure passes available if you prefer not to provide your credit card.
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Now, about the Azure SDK for Ruby. It is a work in progress, and it aims to help you manage various Azure services including storage, service bus, compute services, virtual machines, SQL databases, and virtual networks. The code is available on GitHub, and since it’s open source, we welcome any feedback you might have.
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Here's a quick example of how to use it: when creating a storage service, you create a storage account and then create a container. The Azure storage service uses containers which are similar to directories. You can manage files, or 'blocks', within those containers.
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The goal of this library is to make your applications cloud-portable. You should be able to write your app once and deploy it on any cloud without needing to change the code. Although this doesn't happen perfectly, it minimizes the required changes when switching from one cloud to another.
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To enhance functionality, based on the Ruby SDK, we created an Azure Monitor for Farm. If you are using the Farm library in your app, now you can also target the Azure cloud. This is an open source project and currently a work in progress, so we’d love your feedback as you try it out and potentially contribute.
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Once you have a REST API, if you have enough metadata about the API, you should be able to create a client design that handles the serialization of objects easily. Azure features a tool called Autorest, which can generate client libraries in various languages, including Ruby.
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You can generate client libraries for your APIs, and when creating an Azure API application, you receive sufficient metadata to download the description in JSON format. This allows you to easily create a Ruby client SDK that you can use immediately.
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Moreover, for well-established services, Azure provides API connectors. For services like Facebook and Salesforce, Azure allows you to download Swagger files to quickly generate client SDKs for those services. I can show you how to use it with video in this context by generating a Ruby SDK on-the-fly to send messages.
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We're also working to utilize Autorest to generate an actual Azure Ruby SDK, ensuring that our SDK is always up-to-date. If there is a change in the cloud-based APIs and services, we will simply regenerate everything to keep you current.
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As many of you may have heard, Microsoft is working on a new web browser codenamed Spartan, which will replace Internet Explorer as the default browser for Windows 10. To help developers test their web applications, Microsoft allows you to run this browser in the cloud using Azure Remote App.
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You can connect to Azure and get an instance of the browser running in the cloud, allowing you to test your web application using your own URL. Although performance may vary, it’s a great way to see how your app behaves in different browsers.
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Let’s take some questions, and depending on the time we have left, I’ll also provide some demos.
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Yes, does this offer support for containerized deployment, like Docker? Azure does support that. It has been announced that several projects exist to deploy containerized applications on Azure.
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In the Azure Marketplace, there are lots of pre-configured virtual machine images. You can choose your configurations like cores and CPUs, specify the DNS, and then deploy your cloud service.
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Let me show you how to test your Spartan browser using Azure Remote App. You can access the browser directly in the cloud and test your websites or applications.
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As you can see, you can type in your URL to test how your application behaves in Spartan. This service works from any device, including Mac, Linux, and Android tablets.
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Are there any questions about what we’ve covered so far?
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Let me show you the API apps and how they generate their SDKs.
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Here are some sample API apps I've created. Each app provides specific functionality and can help you understand how to generate client SDKs using Autorest.
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By the end, I hope you see how easy it is to generate Ruby SDKs by simply clicking a button on your Azure Portal.
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This is just the beginning, and I’m excited to see the potential of Azure and Ruby combined.
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Thank you for joining me today to learn about leveraging Microsoft Azure from Ruby. I hope you found it helpful and informative!
