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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By : Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams
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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By: Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business. The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business. By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Azure Resource Manager templates

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates provide a native IaC solution specifically designed for Azure. These templates offer a declarative approach to defining and deploying Azure resources using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax. It is easy to manage and implement infrastructure changes effectively using ARM templates. The declarative nature of ARM templates allows for a clear representation of resources and their properties, simplifying the process of managing and deploying infrastructure configurations within the Azure environment.

Benefits of ARM templates

The real benefit of using the ARM template system is that it allows having declarative syntax. That means you can deploy any Azure resource and create the necessary infrastructure building blocks that go around it. Templates provide a process that can be run repeatedly in a very consistent manner to manage the desired state of the infrastructure. As a result, the template becomes the...