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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 Managed Instances


In the previous chapter, Azure SQL Managed Instances were introduced as one of the Azure SQL Database types. In this section, we will provide more information on them.

Azure SQL Managed Instances offer the full functionalities of SQL Server Enterprise. If you need some features that were not available in the previous types that we discussed (such as SQL Agent or linked servers), this type will fulfill your needs.

Azure SQL Managed Instances can be better than the other Azure SQL Database types, for the following reasons:

  • SQL Server Enterprise edition features support: All of the features that you used to work with an SQL Server on-premises can be used with this type.
  • Dedicated instance: Unlike with the other types of Azure SQL Databases, you will not be sharing the server on which you run your database with others.
  • Backward compatibility: If you have legacy versions of SQL Servers on-premises, you can migrate the databases to Azure SQL Managed Instances with no problems...