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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)

Validation and testing against Azure

To Validate and test the UI definition against the Azure Portal, a method called
Sideloading can be used. This method gives us the possibility, to test our UI definition in the Azure Portal, as it would look like the user is rolling out our template. The files necessary for this process are also located in the main folder of the quickstart-templates GitHub repository at https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates.

The files needed for this part of the testing are SideLoad-CreateUIDefinition.ps1
and sideload-createuidef.shI will also test the files using the PowerShell version of the script, the bash version has some amendments in the switches but is mostly the same.

Like in the previous part, you also need to be logged in to Azure in the PowerShell Window to run the script. When you first run the script SideLoad-CreateUIDefinition.ps1, you need to specify the parameter StorageResourceGroupLocation...