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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 basics step

The following parameters section (from line 4 onwards) is starting with the basics step.

"basics": [ 
            {} 
        ] 

The basics step is always the first step of any UI definition file and is the first one generated by the portal. Though we did not declare any elements in the basics step, the basics step in our definition consists of three elements as you can see in the preceding Deploying an Azure managed application UI definition screenshot. Those three elements are automatically added by Azure to the definition to get the minimum amount of information from a user that is needed to deploy any resources in Azure. Those three elements are as follows:

  • The subscription
  • The resource group to deploy to
  • The location of the deployed resources

You do have the opportunity to add user defined elements in the basic section. Be aware, that only elements which are not dependent on either of these three elements are allowed. For example: If you try to add...