Welcome to our book about implementing Azure solutions. Microsoft Azure is the cloud platform of Microsoft and offers you numerous services to host your existing application infrastructure, deliver services tailored to your individual needs, or even expand your on-premise applications. Azure integrates the cloud services you need to develop, test, implement, and manage your applications and allows you to focus on building great solutions without the need to worry about how the physical infrastructure is assembled.
A very complex field of work and, therefore, the question arises immediately is this: where should I start? Unfortunately, we cannot answer this question, but we can show you the way so that you may find your own answer.
This book provides you with complete solutions that you can follow to learn how to create VMs, virtual networks, storage accounts, and so on as well as best-practice guidance of our consulting work to help you get the most out of your Azure experience. We hope this is a healthy mixture, but are always open to suggestions.
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Chapter 1, Getting Started with Azure Implementation, provides an overview of cloud service models, cloud deployment models, cloud characteristics, and Azure services.
Chapter 2, Azure Resource Manager and Tools, explains all about the Azure Resource Manager and its concepts (Azure Resource Groups, Azure Resource Tags, and Locks). You will also get an introduction to working with the ARM Templates area.
Chapter 3, Deploying and Synchronizing Azure Active Directory, gives you an overview of the deployment, management, and functionalities of Azure Active Directory and its relation to a Microsoft Azure subscription.
Chapter 4, Implementing Azure Networks, explains how networking in Azure works, how to plan Azure network components, and how to deploy different network components within Azure.
Chapter 5, Implementing and Securing Azure Storage Accounts, explains all about Azure Storage Management and its concepts (BLOBs, tables, queues, and files). You will also get some basic storage configurations.
Chapter 6, Planning and Deploying Virtual Machines in Azure, demonstrates the difference between the Azure virtual machine types, the common use cases for the different types, and how to deploy virtual machines.
Chapter 7, Implementing Azure Cloud Services, explains all about Azure Cloud Services, the Cloud Service architecture, Azure Cloud Services versus Azure App Services, and how to create your first Cloud Service.
Chapter 8, Implementing Azure Container Service, provides basic knowledge about the Azure Container Service area and how to create your first container service. You will also learn the necessary steps to work with the service afterward.
Chapter 9, Implementing Azure Security, explains all about Azure security concepts (identity management with Azure AD, Role-based Access Control (RBAC), and Azure Storage security) and the Azure Security Center.
Chapter 10, Skill Wrap Up and Migration Scenario, provides a basic overview of how classical applications and services can be placed in the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem and which tools can be used for the migration. This chapter is based on a common use case and migration scenario.
Learning from a book only works if you have the opportunity to implement what you have learned in practice. That's why you need an Azure subscription. To do this at no cost, you can use a free Azure trial from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
To understand parts of the book, you also need an installation of Visual Studio. You can use any edition of Visual Studio. To avoid unnecessary costs, I recommend using the free Visual Studio Community Edition from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/.
This book focuses on providing essential information about the implementation of Azure solutions to software architects, developers, and IT professionals. The technical information will be offered to you in an intermediate and expert level.
Basic knowledge is not necessary, but it is useful for a better understanding of the text. Therefore, some knowledge of programming languages is recommended.
In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The current project consists of three artifacts in two solution folders, Templates and Scripts."
A block of code is set as follows:
"parameters": {
"storageAccountName": {
"type": "string",
"metadata": {
"description": "Storage Account Name"
}
}
}Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
Resize-AzureVNetGateway -GatewaySKU Basic -VnetName DCF-ANE-GW01New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "In the portal, click on New, then click on Data + Storage, and then click on Storage account."
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