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Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Azure offers numerous solutions that can shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face lies in implementing these solutions. </p><p>Implementing Azure Solutions helps you overcome this challenge by enabling you to implement Azure Solutions effectively. The book begins by guiding you in choosing the backend structure for your solutions. You will then work with the Azure toolkit and learn how to use Azure Managed Apps to share your solutions with the Azure service catalog. The book then focuses on various implementation techniques and best practices such as implementing Azure Cloud Services by configuring, deploying, and managing cloud services. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to work with Azure-managed Kubernetes and Azure Container Services. </p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to build robust cloud solutions on Azure.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Preparing the ASDK host

The most recent download of the ASDK can be found here at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/development-kit/?v=try. This is how to download the ASDK:

  1. The Azure Stack Downloader will help you with a nice UI to make it work:

  1. Now we will need to extract the files to a folder of your choice on the local hard disk:

  1. The CloudBuilder.vhdx is the source that all Azure Stack services boot from. You should place this .vhdx file in a destination folder of your choice and start the ASDK installer script, which is available here at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/asdk/asdk-install.
  2. Now let's start with choosing the option on the left and prepare the environment:

  1. We will need to choose the correct virtual disk of Azure Stack and load corresponding drivers for the hardware, if needed:

  1. The installer now mounts the .vhdx file and boots from it. The next required parameters are the local administrator...