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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)

Why should we use IaC to build Azure landing zones?

In this section, we will explain why we should use IaC to build Azure landing zones.

Building Azure landing zones using IaC provides the following key benefits:

  • Maintaining a complete history of infrastructure changes
  • Providing testing environments
  • Catching configuration drifts
  • Gaining higher confidence
  • Managing multiple environments
  • Better understanding your cloud resources
  • Reducing effort
  • Reducing errors

We will explain why each of these benefits is important in the following subsections.

Maintaining a complete history of infrastructure changes

IaC deployments offer the advantage of being backed by a definition file, which enables you to use source control systems to manage the versions of your infrastructure definitions.

Whether you are using Bicep or Terraform, you can store your definition files in a source control repository, allowing you to track changes, collaborate with...