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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)

The file createUiDefinition.json

The second part of a managed application package is made of the user interface definition (createUiDefinition.json). If you are deploying an Azure managed application, the user will have to enter some information for the template to be deployed successfully. This information is gathered by the frontend:

Deploying an Azure managed application UI definition

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, the UI design of an Azure managed application deployment is not very different from a marketplace deployment. The design is described in the UI definition file of the managed application.

Like the mainTemplate.json, the file createUiDefinition.json also has some mandatory and optional elements and follows a predefined markup:

    {
       "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/0.1.2-preview/CreateUIDefinition.MultiVm.json#",
    
    "handler": "Microsoft.Compute.MultiVm",
       "version...