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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)

Working with the portals

With Azure Stack, you will get an administrative portal, which is lacking with Microsoft Public Azure, as there Microsoft is running Azure. Azure Stack will be operated by your operations team. Therefore, Azure Stack provides an administrative portal that is accessible through the following URL (using ASDK, as with the multi-node environment, is something you have to decide during the setup): https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external.

Depending on which scenario Azure Stack has been set up with (connected or disconnected mode), you either have to authenticate against Azure AD or as Cloudadmin:

This portal is used to fulfil the following tasks:

  • Manage the infrastructure (including system health, updates, capacity, and so on)
  • Populate the marketplace
  • Create user subscriptions
  • Create plans and offers

In Azure Stack, a plan is a way to group one or more services into a basic service plan; for example, you could create a plan that includes the compute,...