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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
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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

Azure Key Vault

Securing resources using passwords, keys, credentials, certificates, and unique identifiers is an important element of any environment and application from the security perspective. They need to be protected, and ensuring that these resources remain secure and do not get compromised is an important pillar of security architecture. Management and operations that keep the secrets and keys secure, while making them available when needed, are important aspects that cannot be ignored. Typically, these secrets are used all over the place—within the source code, inside configuration files, on pieces of paper, and in other digital formats. To overcome these challenges and store all secrets uniformly in a centralized secure storage, Azure Key Vault should be used.

Azure Key Vault is well integrated with other Azure services. For example, it would be easy to use a certificate stored in Azure Key Vault and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine's certificate store...