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Learning Azure Cosmos DB

By : Shahid Shaikh
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Learning Azure Cosmos DB

By: Shahid Shaikh

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft has introduced a new globally distributed database, called Azure Cosmos DB. It is a superset of Microsoft's existing NoSQL Document DB service. Azure Cosmos DB enables you to scale throughput and storage elastically and independently across any number of Azure's geographic regions.</p> <p>This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to get introduced to the world of Cosmos DB. This book will focus on building globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple datacenter configurations. This book will shed light on how Cosmos DB offers multimodal NoSQL database capabilities in the cloud at a scale that is one product with different database engines, such as key-value, document, graph, and wide column store. We will cover detailed practical examples on how to create a CRUD application using Cosmos DB with a frontend framework of your choice. This book will empower developers to choose their favorite database engines to perform integration, along with other systems that utilize the most popular languages, such as Node.js. This book will take you through the tips and trick, of Cosmos DB deployment, management, and the security offered by Azure Cosmos DB in order to detect, prevent, and respond to database breaches.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will not only be aware of the best capabilities of relational and non-relational databases, but you will also be able to build scalable, globally distributed,<br />and highly responsive applications.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Deploying a custom app over the Azure network


Azure provides various ways to deploy your application over their network. Depending on the type of the project—that is, whether it is a web application, a batch processing application, or any other type of app—you will need to make a choice of which matches to their services.

For example, let's say we want to deploy the Node.js application on the Azure network; we then need to choose the type of server we want to host our application on.

Azure provides both Windows and Linux-based machines where you can deploy your application.

Let's see we want to create one in the Linux box.

Open the Azure portal and click on Virtual Machines from the left menu. Click on the Create Virtual Machines button.

Refer to the following screenshot for help:

Now, Azure will open up the compute screen; you will see lots of options regarding the operating system and virtual machine images. Refer to the following screenshot for reference:

I am going ahead with an Ubuntu Server...