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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

Summary

As you can see from this chapter, Azure and Azure DevOps have significant synergies. It is essential to create a repeatable, stable way to deploy your code and infrastructure to the cloud. While learning how to deploy this infrastructure to the cloud, we needed to understand why ARM templates are used. This led us to discuss some of the fundamentals and best practices around deploying this infrastructure to leverage our code or applications. We looked at exactly how we need to secure resources and our applications through identity and access control. This brought us to understanding how to create governance in Azure to ensure consistency and compliance.

Azure creates a lot of frameworks that allow you to digest the things that you need to leverage to ensure your applications are secure and complete. It is also good to remember that as you approach Azure, you should approach it from an automation perspective. An organization should develop compliance, Azure governance, and best practices that work across the organization while minimizing its business risk.

Now that we have built a foundation, in the next chapter, we will move on to how we can modernize applications.