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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)

Summary

DevOps is gaining a lot of traction and momentum in the industry. Most organizations have realized its benefits and are looking to implement DevOps. This is happening while most of them are moving to the cloud. Azure, as a cloud model, provides rich and mature DevOps services, making it easy for organizations to implement DevOps. In this chapter, we discussed DevOps along with its core practices, such as configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment. We also discussed different cloud solutions based on PaaS, a virtual machine IaaS, and a container IaaS, along with their respective Azure resources, the build and release pipelines. Configuration management was the core part of this chapter, and we discussed DSC services from Azure Automation and using pull servers to configure virtual machines automatically. Finally, we covered Azure...