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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)

Creating a managed application definition

After we covered the theoretical area of managed applications, let's get more practical in the following part. For your users to or customers to roll out either a service catalog managed application or a marketplace managed application, we first need to define the managed application by creating the app package.

The app package for the internal service catalog and the marketplace are the same, the difference comes from how these two types of managed applications are published and made available either to your internal users (service catalog managed application) or your customers (marketplace managed application offer). In the previous part we learned, that a managed application consists of two required elements, which we will now discuss in detail.

For this part, I will use the Microsoft managed VM sample for managed applications which can be found at: https://github.com/Azure/azure-managedapp-samples/tree/master/samples/101-managed-vm.

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