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Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

By : Chukri A Soueidi
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Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

By: Chukri A Soueidi
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Overview of this book

With the many advantages of using cloud computing, Azure Storage is a robust platform that helps you shift faster to the cloud by providing scalable, durable and highly available data storage options. For developers, it provides a rapid development environment that supports building large-scale applications to support new scenarios on the cloud, server, mobile and web. For IT professionals, it reduces complexity of managing, protecting and replicating data. This book will make you familiar with the Azure storage in terms of architecture and components. It starts with the basics of storage accounts, which give access to the four basic services the Blob, Table, Queue, and File storage services. These services are exposed through a REST API that makes it possible for client libraries to implement most of their functionality in a wide range of popular programming languages. Emphasizing the Windows Azure Client Library for .NET, we will deal with storing and retrieving unstructured data with Blobs, then will move to Tables to insert and update entities in a structured NoSQL fashion. Then we will discover Queues as a reliable messaging service, and after that we will show File storage that allows you to migrate legacy applications data to the cloud to end with transient fault handling and service monitoring.
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Preface
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What this book covers
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Conventions
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1. An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services
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1. An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services
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An introduction to Azure Storage
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Storage services
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Storage accounts
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Redundancy options
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Metrics and logging
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Summary
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2. Developing Against Storage
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2. Developing Against Storage
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The Service Management REST APIs
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The Storage Services REST APIs
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Azure Storage Client Libraries
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Azure Storage Emulator
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PowerShell
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3. Working with Blobs
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3. Working with Blobs
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Types of blobs
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The blob structure
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Using the Azure Storage Client Library
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Blob snapshots
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4. Working with Tables
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4. Working with Tables
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The arrival of NoSQL
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The Table storage basics
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Using the Azure Storage Client Library
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Starting with a table
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Adding entities to a table
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Entity Group Transactions
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Updating entities
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Querying the table
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Continuation tokens
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5. Designing Scalable and Performant Tables
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5. Designing Scalable and Performant Tables
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Things to understand about Azure Table storage
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The table's primary key
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The three layer architecture
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Partitions
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Entity Group Transactions
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Choosing between Azure Table and Azure SQL
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Table design guidelines
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Studying your data
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Selecting the best PartitionKey
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6. Working with Queues
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6. Working with Queues
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The need for queues
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The Queue storage structure
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Service Bus Queues
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Using the queue storage from .NET
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7. Working with the Azure File Service
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7. Working with the Azure File Service
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Where are Azure Files used?
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The File storage structure
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Using Azure Files
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Using AzCopy
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8. Transient Fault Handling and Analytics
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8. Transient Fault Handling and Analytics
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Transient fault handling
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Storage Analytics
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Analyzing the Storage Analytics data
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Common practices
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Chapter 1. An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services

Microsoft Azure is an open and secure cloud platform that enables you to build, deploy, and manage applications. With its broad collection of services, it allows you to build with any programming language, tool, or framework, and integrate your cloud-hosted solutions with your existing IT environments.

Azure services fall into three main categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), like virtual machines; Software as a Service (SaaS), like Azure SQL; and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, like Office 365. This is a collection of offerings that engage IT specialists, developers, and business owners.

The platform is globally present through a network of Microsoft-managed datacenters, distributed around 19 remote regions (as of writing), which facilitate redundancy and rapid recovery. It is a self-service platform where you can provision your resources and scale them elastically based on your own business needs.

It supports various programming languages such as .NET, PHP, Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby. In addition, it supports a variety of data services like relational databases, NoSQL, and Big Data solutions. It also promotes hybrid solutions and allows you to extend your datacenters to the cloud using virtual networks.

Below is a brief classification for the services offered:

  • Compute services such as virtual machines and cloud services
  • Web and mobile services such as web apps and mobile apps
  • Storage and data services such as blobs, tables, and SQL databases
  • Hybrid integration services such as queues, BizTalk, and Service Bus
  • Networking services such as virtual networks and traffic manager
  • Analytics services such as machine learning
  • Identity and access services such as active directory and multi-factor authentication
  • Media and CDN services

Azure also offers management services, like the portal and marketplace, and developer enriching features such as Visual Studio Online and application insights.

Tip

For all services, you can check them out on the Azure documentation website at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/.

You can also download the service catalog poster from http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/infographics/azure/.

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