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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

Let’s talk architecture styles


As the cloud movement takes shape, gone are the days of monolithic enterprise applications, and in step smaller decentralized services. Applications have become more asynchronous and scale both horizontally and vertically, with deployments becoming more automated and predictable. With Azure, there are certain architectural styles that are commonly leveraged, and while these styles don’t rely on a specific technology, there are some technologies that fit into these architectures well.

Common application patterns

Let’s take a look at a few common patterns in Azure:

  • Microservices: Small, independent services that implement a single business function. They contain the code, configuration, and data repository needed to support the service. They are small pieces of Lego you can leverage to build applications that are team agnostic and are updated often with little to no application impact. The following are examples of microservice resources in Azure:
    • Service Fabric...