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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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

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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Index

Summary

As business environments evolve, software applications may run on different systems on-premises, off-premises, in multiple clouds, and at the edge of networks. Hybrid and multicloud solutions can enable you to successfully deploy and manage your apps if you also create a single, consistent environment across the locations of your organization. In doing so, you offer your developers a unified set of tools for building apps. You can easily move apps and data between locations to ensure efficiency and compliance, and to offer your users an optimal experience.

Azure Arc and the Azure Stack portfolio are two major components of Azure hybrid and multicloud solutions and products. Azure Arc offers unified management to deploy Azure services and extend Azure management anywhere. With Azure Arc enabled servers, you can apply native Azure VM management to Windows and Linux machines outside Azure. With Azure Arc and Kubernetes, you can run specified Azure data services on the infrastructure...