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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Creating an IaaS solution on Azure with Active Directory and DNS

Creating an IaaS solution on Azure means creating multiple virtual machines, promoting a virtual machine to be a domain controller, and making other virtual machines join the domain controller as domain-joined nodes. It also means installing a DNS server for name resolution and, optionally, a jump server for accessing these virtual machines securely.

The template creates an Active Directory forest on the virtual machines. It creates multiple virtual machines based on the parameters supplied.

The template creates:

  • A couple of availability sets
  • A virtual network
  • Network security groups to define the allowed and disallowed ports and IP addresses

The template then does the following:

  • Provisions one or two domains. The root domain is created by default; the child domain is optional
  • Provisions two domain controllers per domain
  • Executes the desired state configuration scripts...