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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

Contributors

About the author

Greg Leonardo has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military. He is a father, veteran, developer, teacher, speaker, Azure MVP, and an early adopter. He has have worked in many facets of IT throughout his career. He is president of #TampaCC, a community meetup, that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events throughout Tampa.

I would like to thank my wife, Kate, and my two sons, Maddux and Lucas, for giving me the freedom to pursue sharing my experiences through this book. 

 

About the reviewers

Gajanan Chandgadkar has more than 12 years' experience in the IT sector. He has spent over 6 years in the USA helping large enterprises architect, migrate, and deploy applications in AWS and Azure. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 6 years, and on Azure for the past year. He is a certified solutions architect professional and a certified DevOps professional with over seven certifications in trending technologies. Gajanan is also a technology enthusiast who has extended his interest and experiences to include different topics, such as application development, container technology, and continuous delivery.

He is currently working with Happiest Minds Technologies as a DevOps architect, having worked with Wipro Technologies Corporation in the past.

 

 

 

Rohit Prakash is an Azure solutions engineer, with an unabashed fondness for Windows and Microsoft Azure in both disciplines. He specializes in Azure IaaS/PaaS design and implementation. In the past, he has made several contributions to Microsoft Community by contributing to TechNet articles, with a focus on Azure. He has been a member of the Microsoft BizSpark program since his college days and he has also been offered an MSDN subscription by Microsoft. He loves writing blogs as a way of sharing his thoughts.

He works with Fujitsu Consulting India and lives in Noida, India, where his personal time is split evenly between family and friends. He enjoys visiting peaceful and devotional locations.

 

 

 

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