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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

Microsoft Azure is a cloud with a lot of services and options. Combining these results in endless possibilities. We mentioned some of the best practices that can guide you to create productive and secure cloud environments. Based on these, you can expand and create your own rules and practices, depending on your services and requirements.

Although we have reached the end of this book, we have covered only a fraction of what Azure has to offer. Covering all of the available services would be just impossible in a single book, and if we wanted to provide a deep dive into each service, it would probably end up with a separate book for each service. This book was intended to provide you with an understanding of cloud design, cloud services, and best practices in the cloud, in order to give you a solid foundation of where you can start your cloud journey and build more, based...