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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)

Chapter 11: Azure Hybrid Data Center Services

  1. Azure Stack always fits if one of the following scenarios exists:
    • You have a disconnected or partially disconnected scenario
    • Data privacy does not allow you to save data to public Azure
    • Migrating applications to cloud ready/stateless apps on premise
  1. The minimum number of hosts is four, the maximum currently is 16 hosts.
  2. Azure Stack can only be bought through the seven currently certified hardware vendors.
  3. Azure Stack currently supports virtual machines, MySQL, and MSSQL as PaaS, App Services, and Azure Functions. For IoT Edge and Azure Container Services based on Kubernetes, a preview is available for template deployments (as virtual machines).
  4. Azure Stack supports the connected scenario using Azure AD as identity provider or the disconnected scenario using ADFS.
  5. For testing purposes, the ASDK is available. It is providing all services available on Azure Stack today, but does not provide high availability...