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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

Operating Azure Stack


In this chapter so far, we have discussed what Azure Stack is and how to install the ASDK. Now it is time to have a look at Azure Stack and see how it works.

Basically, there are three ways to connect to Azure Stack endpoints and work with them from the operations side:

  • Admin portal and tenant portal
  • PowerShell
  • The Azure (Stack) CLI

Working with the portals

With Azure Stack, you will get an administrative portal, which is lacking with Microsoft Public Azure, as there Microsoft is running Azure. Azure Stack will be operated by your operations team. Therefore, Azure Stack provides an administrative portal that is accessible through the following URL (using ASDK, as with the multi-node environment, is something you have to decide during the setup): https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external.

Depending on which scenario Azure Stack has been set up with (connected or disconnected mode), you either have to authenticate against Azure AD or as Cloudadmin:

This portal is used to...