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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Summary

This chapter introduced Logic Apps and demonstrated a complete end-to-end solution using multiple Azure services. The chapter focused heavily on creating an architecture that integrated multiple Azure services to create an end-to-end solution. The services used in the solution were Azure Automation, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, SendGrid, and Twilio. These services were implemented through the Azure portal and PowerShell using service principals as service accounts. The chapter also showed a number of ways of creating service principals with password and certificate authentication.

A solution to a problem can be found in multiple ways. You could use an Outlook trigger in a logic app instead of SendGrid. There will be many solutions to a problem—the one to go with depends on what approach you are taking. The more familiar you are with the services, the greater the number of options you will have. In the next chapter, you will learn about the...