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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

Setting up your development environment


As we begin developing solutions, you can install Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code as well as create an Azure DevOps account.  You can find the downloads at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/free-developer-offers/ and for the purposes of this book, we are going to stick with Visual Studio over Visual Studio Code. In Visual Studio, please ensure the following Workloads are installed:

Visual Studio Workloads for Azure Development

Now that you have installed/verified Visual Studio, let’s head over to Azure DevOps at https://dev.azure.com/, and sign in with the Microsoft or organization account you would like to associate with Azure DevOps. Let’s walk through setting it up.

  1. Click on Continue to accept the terms and the Code of Conduct, as you can see in the following figure:

Azure DevOps Agreement

  1. You can then create a Public or Private project, as you can see in the following figure.  Public is for anyone to access and Private is for folks you assign....