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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure SQL elastic database pools


In the previous chapter, we gave you a sneak peek at elastic database pools. In this section, you will learn more about them, and you will work on creating and managing them.

Benefits of using elastic database pools

An elastic database pool can help you to achieve the following:

  • Simplify performance management for multiple databases, especially when usage patterns are unpredictable
  • Reduce the cost of multiple databases and provide a convenient way to control the budget
  • Perfect choice for Software as a service (SaaS) apps that provision a single database per tenant, to get isolation benefits

Note

It's not recommended to use elastic database pools for mission critical applications that require specific consumption and can be degraded by other databases running in the same pool. 

Creating an elastic database pool

To get your elastic database pool up and running, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the SQL servers blade and click on New pool, as shown in the following screenshot...