All-in on Cloud: How We Moved from Million Euro Worth of Hardware to Azure PaaS

Astrata collects telemetry from tens of thousands of vehicles throughout Europe. For many years all the back-end services were hosted on bare-metal self-managed hardware.

By the end of 2017, the decision was made to join the cloud era and move all business-critical workloads to Microsoft Azure. And along the migration, applications were modernized to leverage higher level Platform-as-a-Service whenever feasible.

During this session Mikhail will guide you through this migration story from making the decision to lessons learned, looking from developer and operations points of view.

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1. How We Moved from a Million Worth of Hardware to Azure PaaS
2. Mikhail Shilkov Software Developer Microsoft Azure MVP Serverless Azure Functions Functional Programming F# @MikhailShilkov https://mikhail.io
7. ARM Template
8. ARM Template Magic Button
14. Message Queue Queue Processor Back-end Server Database Happy User Front-end Server
17. Hardware Power Storage Networking O/S Runtime, 3rd Party SW Applications Data / Backups Data Center Vendor In-house
25.  Lift & Shift  Virtual Machines  Cloud-Native  Kubernetes, Serverless, …
26. Hardware Power Storage Networking O/S Runtime, 3rd Party SW Applications Data / Backups Cloud Vendor In-house
33. Back-end API Queue Queue Processor Database Front-end API Monitoring Deployment
35. Node A Node B SAN Backup Device
41. SQL Server (self-hosted) Console app: Capture the trace Azure Event Hubs Azure Functions: Replay the trace Azure SQL Database
42. pricing tier disk space  Index features
44. Differential Backup Full Backup
45. .bacpac
46. Publisher Subscriber Distributor
48. Back-end API Front-end API Firewall Boundary
49. Back-end API Front-end API Web Service A Web Service B Web Service C Firewall Boundary
51. Back-end App Service Front-end App Service App Service A App Service B App Service C Client Certificates over HTTPS Session store
53. Service Broker Queue CLR Stored Procedure SQL Table Windows Service SQL Server
54. Azure Service Bus Queue SQL Table App Service Azure SQL
58. Service Broker Queue CLR Stored Procedure SQL Table Windows Service SQL Server
59. Service Bus Queue SQL Table App Service Web Job
66. prdfooaspbar001 {environment}{application}{azure service}{component}{number} Production App Service Plan
73. Grafana PRTG Custom Metrics Azure Monitor Azure
74. Azure Service Bus Azure App Service Azure SQL Database Azure Health
82. https://mikhail.io https://mikhail.io/2018/02/load-testing-azure-sql-database-by-copying-traffic-from- production-sql-server/ https://mikhail.io/2017/03/azure-functions-as-facade-for-azure-monitoring/