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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Azure App Service Plan and Azure Web Apps

PaaS in Azure (or in any public cloud) is more abstract than IaaS. It's simple to understand the IaaS model because it's not much different from on-premises: we create a virtual machine, we configure it any way we want, we install anything we want (of course, limited by the OS itself; we can't install something that wouldn't run on-premises either).

After we create our Azure VM, we have complete control over everything on that VM. For example, the VMs created in the previous chapter were intended to be used as web servers. We can connect to that VM and install all the required roles, features, and software in order to start hosting our application.

But what if we want to do a similar thing with PaaS?

An Azure App Service Plan is used to host our web applications in Azure. We need to create an Azure App Service Plan...