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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)

Log analytics

Application insights is used for monitoring the application, however, it is equally important to monitor the environment on which the application is hosted and running. This involves the infrastructure such as virtual machines, Docker container, and its related components.

Provisioning

Log analytics, also known as the Operational Management Suite (OMS), must be provisioned on Azure before it can be used to monitor the virtual machines and containers. Again, similar to the application insights, operational insights can be provisioned through the Azure portal, PowerShell, REST API, and resource group manager templates. An operational insights workspace is a security boundary that can be allowed to be accessed...