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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have 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. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Azure Solutions Using Azure Container Services

Containers are the most talked-about technologies these days. Corporations are talking about containers rather than virtual machines and want to see them in almost all their solutions. The solutions could be microservices, serverless functions, web applications, web APIs, or just about anything.

In this chapter, we will delve into most of the Azure features that are to do with containers, including the following:

  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Containers on virtual machines
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Azure Container Instance
  • Web apps for containers
  • Hosting images on Docker Hub

We will not go into the details and fundamentals of containers, and will concentrate more on Azure-specific container services.

Every container needs an image as a starting point. An image can be created using a Dockerfile or can be downloaded from a container registry...