Azure?

Options
lmlange
lmlange
edited August 2012 in Photon Server
Hi All

Found this link from a year back about running Photon on the Azure platform: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=550, cant find alot of other information about it.

Any news about setting up Photon on Azure, do anyone got a good guilde for setting it up?

Regards
Lennart

Comments

  • Philip
    Philip ✭
    Options
    Until recently running photon on azure didn't make a lot of sence manly because on azure it was not possible to address a specific instance (by-passing the loadbalancer) - this has just changed with the latest release (azure sdk 1.7)

    Now azure allows to setup port forwarding to address specific instances with this release also UDP was introduced. So azure is Photon ready now :).

    If you'd like to see more of the new networing features on azure and photon running on azure Microsoft is show casing Photon on Teched and other conferences:
    http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/ ... 012/AZR304

    We are in the mids of getting photon 3.0 out this week and are planning to get a Photon Azure SDK out in the next weeks. I'm planing to send out a couple of previews to gather feadback in around two weeks.
  • lmlange
    lmlange
    Options
    Hi Philip

    Thx alot, looking forward to test it. So if everything goes well, we should be able to download it sometime end of next week for testing?

    LEnnart
  • mindlube
    mindlube
    Options
    Philip, can you say where (min:sec) of that TechEd video that Photon is discussed in particular? I'm about 33min and they have talked about UDP and Game servers only in passing mention...

    Although I am happy with my current provider (CloudSigma) and have never used Azure, I am curious about the "Service Bus" that Azure supposedly offers. And how Photon will fit into Azure loadbalancing/probing/firewall. etc.
  • mindlube
    mindlube
    Options
    oops, OK found it @ about 37:00 (min:sec)
    They demo-d AngryBots with 1 player connected.
    I realized ServiceBus has nothing to do with gaming whatsoever.
  • lmlange
    lmlange
    Options
    any news?
  • Philip
    Philip ✭
    Options
    Well we had delays with the release of 3.0 - now that it is out we've made some progress on the planned azure sdk.

    If you are interested - in something to start playing around with - I could post a download link to a first alpha somewhere beginning next week.

    For those interested I will assume some basic knowledge of azure concepts. Like
    - how to setup a management and service certificates (see http://goo.gl/9BHZ9)
    - setting up a storage account & where you get the access keys (see http://goo.gl/q6WZV or http://goo.gl/gT08W)

    The Photon SDK is going to include two demo projects to deploy a service based on workerroles
    1. based on lite
    2. based on loadbalancing
  • lmlange
    lmlange
    Options
    Hi Philip

    Thx for your answer...

    Yes, please. I would very much like to play abit around with the setup...

    Lennart
  • lmlange
    lmlange
    Options
    Hi

    How your doing with the azure setup ?

Cookies,
anyone?

We use cookies and related technologies to enhance your experience, show you personalised content and analyze performance and traffic on our website. By clicking on the „Accept All“ button you consent to the use of non-functional cookies and the subsequent processing of personal data to optimize our website and services as described in more detail in our Privacy and Cookie Policy.

By clicking on the „Customize or Deny all“ button you can decide otherwise. Clicking on the „Customize“ button will take you to a page where you can configure the usage of non-functional cookies (and related technologies) or deny all of them. You can access these settings at any time and also subsequently deselect cookies at any time in the footer area of our website.

ACCEPT ALL

Cookie Overview

We use the following categories of cookies and related technologies to enhance your experience, show you personalized content, and analyze performance and traffic on our website. We respect your right to privacy and accordingly you can chose to not allow some types of cookies (and related technologies). Click on the different category sliders and change our default settings to manage your cookie settings.

For more information on the specific cookies/related technologies we use and on how we use these, please see section 15 E. of our Privacy and Cookie Policy.

ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY

Authentication cookies we use are required to run our services … Cookies are required: Link

FUNCTIONAL AND MARKETING COOKIES

These cookies collect anonymous data and allow us to optimize our website and user experience. These cookies are listed here:

ANALYTICS

Help us to understand how visitors interact with our services, enables us to analyze and improve our services (also through third party analytics).