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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)

Understanding the Cloud Service architecture

The following diagram shows an brief overview of an Azure Cloud Service architecture:

As you can see, an Azure Cloud Service consists of the following two elements:

  • Cloud Services Package: The service package (ServicePackage.cspkg) is a ZIP file which includes the Service Definition File (ServiceDefinition.csdef) and the Code Assets for the service and the required binary-based dependencies
  • Service Configuration File: The service configuration file is ServiceConfig.cscfg

As you can also see, the service configuration file is outside of the cloud service package. This is because changes in the configuration can be made without interruption at run time (by uploading a new service configuration file). However, changes to the service itself require a redeployment of the cloud service package.