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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By : Greg Leonardo
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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By: Greg Leonardo

Overview of this book

Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership. Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, followed by exploring the database options it offers. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory and Identity Solution. Moving on, you’ll learn how to extend DevOps to Azure. You will also beneft from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and cloud. The book will help you to design a secure environment for your solution, on both the Cloud and hybrid. Toward the end, you’ll see how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions. By the end of this book, you will be armed with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solutions on Azure, whether it’s for a brand new project or migration project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Best Practices to Make Your Life Easier in Azure

Now that we have put everything together, let's look at some best practices and tips to make your life easier in Azure. In this chapter, we will cover development practices for dashboards and monitoring.

I am going to cover as many best practices as I have learned, with my focus on the most commonly used resources in Azure. I am not going to cover everything, but provide some insight into what I have learned. As we plan for Azure, we need to keep in mind the three basic stages of experimentation, migration, and transformation. To review what these are, let's look at them individually:

  • Experimentation is what we build, how we develop it, how we test it, how we deploy it, and how we monitor and maintain it. Experimentation is constrained by the boundaries of your operations and development personnel. The main goals are to go fast, push boundaries, make data-driven decisions, simplify, and communicate.
  • Migration is the process of moving...