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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - Third Edition

By : Peter De Tender, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram
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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - Third Edition

By: Peter De Tender, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Third Edition encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved by leveraging Azure’s capabilities. The guide further acquaints you with practical insights on application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in driving Azure operations right from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Azure for containerized apps

The first thing that you always run into when discussing containers is, why should I care about containers? This is usually answered in one of two ways. Firstly, containers provide the freedom to move your application from on-premise to the cloud or within the cloud to another cloud provider with no code change to your application. Secondly, each application is self-contained, meaning all application elements and their versions are contained within the boundaries of the container, so changing a library for an application won't negatively affect or spark a redeployment of all the applications that shared the library.

So, what are containers? I like to use a shoebox analogy to describe containers. A shoebox is pretty standardized and small. You can only fit so much in them, and they tend to have a single function like storing your photos. You can store this shoebox and move it around pretty easily. It does, however, require a shelf or floor...