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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 7. Azure Hybrid Data Center Services

Azure public cloud services provide cloud services all around the world, through a technology based on the following high-level design on the left-hand side. If there are scenarios where Azure does not fit the requirements of a customer and services need to be put on-premise, Microsoft has released a product called Azure Stack that has nearly the same technical design as Azure, but runs a smaller footprint. The high-level design for Azure Stack is as follows on the right-hand side of the following diagram:

 

As you can see, the only difference is the infrastructure design on the bottom; in Azure this is something special, based on Windows server technology and in Azure Stack it is Windows Server 2016.

The following diagram provides a way to place Azure (and Azure Stack) all around the world:

The following features are available in Azure Stack as of today:

In this chapter, we will discuss this hybrid technology a little bit more in depth.

Note

If you...