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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
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Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with ARM templates


Now we come to the more advanced section of the explanations on the subject of working with the Azure resource manager. The content of this section is also divided into two parts.

In part 1, we consider the issue from the view of an IT professional. IT pros are less interested in developing their own templates but want to reuse their existing deployments in template form.

The corresponding feature in Azure resource manager is to export a deployment as an ARM template. This feature allows you to create templates of your deployment, download the templates to secure them in a source code repository, modifying your templates and of course the redeployment.

Part 2 (from the perspective of the developer) is easier to explain. This section deals with the topic of authoring an ARM template.

Exporting a deployment as an ARM template (for IT pros)

always roll out the same basic configuration in Azure? Then the following procedure, in the future, can make the work easier:

You often...