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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By : Greg Leonardo
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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By: Greg Leonardo

Overview of this book

Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership. Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, followed by exploring the database options it offers. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory and Identity Solution. Moving on, you’ll learn how to extend DevOps to Azure. You will also beneft from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and cloud. The book will help you to design a secure environment for your solution, on both the Cloud and hybrid. Toward the end, you’ll see how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions. By the end of this book, you will be armed with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solutions on Azure, whether it’s for a brand new project or migration project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding responsibility


Before we dive in, let's discuss how responsibilities are assigned in Azure and what it means to choose IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS solutions.  In the following figure, there is a simplified view of Microsoft's responsibilities:

Microsoft responsibilities simplified

Let's look at some pros and cons based on responsibilities.

Infrastructure as a Service

IaaS is the simplest way to move or create an environment in Azure because this provides more synergy with the on-premise model.  It can be the most costly as well for supporting resources, but the most versatile. Let's look at some pros and cons of using IaaS:

  • Pros
    • More control over the environment
    • Simple migration to the cloud, better compatibility with legacy code
  • Cons
    • Need to continue to patch OS
    • Need to support network configuration
    • Need more support in the environment

Platform as a Service

PaaS provides some great overall services but will limit you in language and resources used.  This provides a consumption model that help...