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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
Book Image

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)

Executing runbooks on Alerts

One of the actions provided by a Log Analytics alert is to execute the Azure Automation runbook. This facility of executing runbooks on an alert provides the opportunity to act on the alert to remediate it and inform the relevant stakeholders using notifications.

  1. The first step in executing a runbook in response to an alert is to create an Azure Automation Account:
  1. After the account is provisioned, create a runbook, as shown in the following screenshot, to prove that it can be executed as part of the alert generation. In this case, the runbook sends an email as part of the notification. It uses Azure Automation credentials to send an email using the O365 SMTP server. Users should have a valid O365 account before sending an email using Azure Automation.
  1. It has to be noted that this is just a demonstration. The runbook can also accept parameters...