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Azure Architecture Explained

By : David Rendón, Brett Hargreaves
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Azure Architecture Explained

By: David Rendón, Brett Hargreaves

Overview of this book

Azure is a sophisticated technology that requires a detailed understanding to reap its full potential and employ its advanced features. This book provides you with a clear path to designing optimal cloud-based solutions in Azure, by delving into the platform's intricacies. You’ll begin by understanding the effective and efficient security management and operation techniques in Azure to implement the appropriate configurations in Microsoft Entra ID. Next, you’ll explore how to modernize your applications for the cloud, examining the different computation and storage options, as well as using Azure data solutions to help migrate and monitor workloads. You’ll also find out how to build your solutions, including containers, networking components, security principles, governance, and advanced observability. With practical examples and step-by-step instructions, you’ll be empowered to work on infrastructure-as-code to effectively deploy and manage resources in your environment. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to navigate the world of cloud computing confidently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Effective and Efficient Security Management and Operations in Azure
5
Part 2 – Architecting Compute and Network Solutions
12
Part 3 – Making the Most of Infrastructure-as-Code for Azure

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: When an Azure AD tenant is created, it comes with a default *.on.microsoft.com domain. A custom domain name such as springtoys.com can be added to the Azure AD tenant to make usernames more familiar to the users.

A block of code is set as follows:

{
 "Logging": {
  "LogLevel": {
   "Default": "Information",
   "Microsoft.AspNetCore": "Warning"
  }

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: As the modern IT landscape continues to evolve, so does the importance of effective identity and access management (IAM) solutions.

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