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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Azure Resource Manager and Tools

The Azure platform consists primarily of three parts—Azure execution model, which denotes the areas where you can provide your services and applications in the cloud; Azure Building Blocks; and Azure Data Services, which refers to services that extend the platform to common capabilities and functionalities.

I could actually forgo the description of the platform, because most users only get to see these three parts, but there are still more. Many other services are working under the hood of the platform and ensure its ongoing operation. These services include, for example, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM). All of these services can be customized using various interfaces for your personal needs.

In this chapter, I'll introduce you to ARM in detail, and we will explore the following topics:

  • ARM and Azure resource groups
  • Azure resource tags
  • Azure resource locks
  • Working with ARM templates
  • Creating your own ARM template...