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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
8
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
14
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
22
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability

Integrating with virtual networks

As Azure logic apps often work in enterprise environments, establishing secure connectivity is a must. Whether you want to connect to other Azure resources inside virtual networks or use hybrid connectivity to connect to your on-premises services, you need a way to integrate individual components of your system and allow them to talk to each other. The overall setup will depend on the plan used to host your logic apps:

  • For the Consumption plan, you will need additional ISE runtime.
  • For the Standard plan, you can leverage private endpoints/Virtual Network (VNet) integration.

When choosing a model that works for you, you need to consider several details. Use of ISE is not free of charge – there are two pricing tiers, which are charged as follows:

  • Developer – $1.18 per hour
  • Premium – $7.21 per hour

Important Note

Take into consideration that the Developer tier does not offer an SLA for the...