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Azure for Architects - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi

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Azure for Architects

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By: Ritesh Modi

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Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.

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Getting Started

Cloud computing

Understanding Azure

Azure as an intelligent cloud

Azure Resource Manager

Virtualization

Containers

Docker

Interacting with the intelligent cloud

Summary

Azure Solution Availability and Scalability

High availability

Azure high availability

Architectural considerations for high availability

Scalability

Upgrades and maintenance

Summary

Security and Monitoring

Security

Monitoring

Azure monitoring

Application Insights

Log Analytics

Executing runbooks on Alerts

Integrating PowerBI

Summary

Cross-Subscription Deployments Using ARM Templates

ARM templates

Deploying resource groups with ARM templates

Deploying resources across subscriptions and resource groups

Deploying cross-subscription and resource-group deployments using linked templates

Summary

ARM Templates - Modular Design and Implementation

Problems with the single template

Understanding the Single Responsibility Principle

Linked templates

Nested templates

Free-flow configurations

Known configurations

Summary

Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions

Serverless

Azure Functions advantages

FaaS

Creating your first Azure Functions

Creating an event-driven Function

Function proxies

Understanding workflows

Durable Functions

Creating a connected architecture with Functions

Summary

Azure Integration Solutions

Azure Event Grid

Azure Logic Apps

Creating an end-to-end solution using Serverless technologies

Summary

Cost Management

Understanding billing

Invoicing

Enterprise agreement customers

Usage and quotas

Resource providers

The usage and billing APIs

Azure pricing models

The Azure pricing calculator

Best practices

Summary

Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags

Azure tags

Azure policies

Azure locks

Azure RBAC

An example of implementing Azure governance features

Summary

Azure Solutions Using Azure Container Services

Azure Container Registry

Azure Container Instances

Azure Kubernetes Service

App Service containers

Comparing all container options

Summary

Azure DevOps

DevOps

DevOps practices

Azure DevOps

Preparing for DevOps

DevOps for PaaS solutions

DevOps for virtual machine (IaaS)-based solutions

DevOps for container-based (IaaS) solutions

Azure DevOps and Jenkins

Azure Automation

Azure for DevOps

Summary

Azure OLTP Solutions Using Azure SQL Sharding, Pools, and Hybrid

Azure cloud services

OLTP applications

Relational databases

Deployment models

Azure SQL Database

Single instance

Elastic pools

Managed Instance

SQL database pricing

Summary

Azure Big Data Solutions Using Azure Data Lake Storage and Data Factory

Data integration

ETL

A primer on Data Factory

A primer on Data Lake Storage

Migrating data from Azure Storage to Data Lake Gen2 Storage

Summary

Azure Stream Analytics and Event Hubs

A primer on Event Hubs

Architecture of Event Hubs

A primer on Stream Analytics

A sample application using Event Hubs and Stream Analytics

Summary

Designing IoT Solutions

IoT

IoT architecture

Azure IoT

IoT Hubs

High availability

Summary

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