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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating your first Azure function

Azure functions can be created using the Azure portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and REST API's. Steps to create a function using the ARM template is already detailed at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-infrastructure-as-code. In this section, Azure functions will be provisioned using the portal.

Azure functions are hosted within Azure app services. Users create a new function app which in turn creates an app service plan and app service. The app service plan is configured based on the following:

  • Name: Name of app service. The name should be unique within the .azurewebsites.net domain.
  • Location: Location for hosting the Azure function app service.
  • Hosting plan: This is also known as the pricing plan. Here, two options, as discussed previously, are available--consumption and app services plan.
  • Resource group...