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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

DevOps is gaining lots of traction and momentum in the industry. Most organizations have realized its benefits and are looking forward to implementing DevOps. This is happening while most of them are moving to the cloud. Azure as a cloud model is rich and mature in providing DevOps services, making it easy for such organizations to implement DevOps. In this chapter, DevOps was discussed at length along with its core practices, such as configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment. We also discussed different PaaS based, virtual machines IaaS, and a container IaaS based cloud solution along with their respective Azure resources, build and release pipelines. Configuration management was the core part of this chapter and we discussed DSC services from Azure automation and using pull servers to configure virtual machines automatically...