What this book covers
Chapter 1, Planning Workloads with the Well-Architected Framework, takes you through the concept of the Well-Architected Framework, its pillars, and its elements. The pillars and elements will be explained at a very high level, which will help you to plan your workload optimization.
Chapter 2, Distinguishing between the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework, explores both of these frameworks used in Azure. It’s often confusing to decide which framework to use. In this chapter, we will be demystifying the concepts of the Cloud Adoption Framework and the Well-Architected Framework.
Chapter 3, Implementing Cost Optimization, explains the importance of cost optimization, cost governance, and relevant tools.
Chapter 4, Achieving Operational Excellence, describes all the processes and operations required to keep your mission-critical applications up and running. In this pillar, we deal with the automation of deployment and release processes to eliminate any human error.
Chapter 5, Improving Applications with Performance Efficiency, explains how to ensure good performance with changing demand. We need to make sure that our workloads don’t face any performance degradation during peak hours. With the help of performance efficiency best practices, we can ensure that our workloads can tackle this crisis.
Chapter 6, Building Reliable Applications, discusses a crucial aspect of maintaining high availability and developing business continuity solutions. In this chapter, we will explore the reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework, its patterns, and its best practices.
Chapter 7, Leveraging the Security Pillar, explores the primary concern for every organization during the deployment of applications in the public cloud, which is the security of these applications. We need to think about security during the complete life cycle of the application as it’s an inevitable component. In this chapter, we will see how we can build secure applications.
Chapter 8, Assessment and Remediation, shows you how to assess your Azure workloads using the Well-Architected Framework and come up with a remediation plan to optimize your Azure environment.