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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

Resource providers and resource types

Whether you are interacting with the Azure portal, filtering services, or filtering the billing usage report, you might need to work with resource providers and resource types. For example, when you are creating a virtual machine, you are interacting with the Microsoft.Compute resource provider and the virtualMachines resource type. The create button that you click on to create the virtual machines communicates with the resource provider via an API to get your deployment done. This is always denoted in the format {resource-provider}/{resource-type}. So, the resource type for the virtual machine is Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines. In short, resource providers help to create resource types.

Resource providers need to be registered with an Azure subscription. Resource types will not be available in a subscription if resource providers are not registered. By default, most providers are automatically registered; having said that, there will be...