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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 AD


Azure AD is a multi-tenant cloud directory and identity management service developed by Microsoft. Azure AD also includes a full suite of identity management capabilities, including the following:

  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Device registration
  • Self-service password management
  • Self-service group management
  • Privileged account management
  • Role-based access control
  • Application usage monitoring
  • Rich auditing
  • Security monitoring and alerting

Azure AD can be integrated with an existing Windows Server AD, giving organizations the ability to leverage their existing on-premises identities to manage access to cloud-based SaaS applications. An organization is also able to easily implement single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) through Azure AD without adding third-party software into its environment.

After this chapter, you will know how to set up Azure AD and Azure Connect. You will also be able to design a highly available infrastructure for identity replication.

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