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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

17. Designing IoT solutions

In the previous chapter, you learned about ARM templates, and so far, we have been dealing with architectural concerns and their solutions in Azure in general. However, this chapter is not based on generalized architecture. In fact, it explores one of the most disruptive technologies of this century. This chapter will discuss the details of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Azure.

Azure IoT refers to a collection of Microsoft-managed cloud services that can connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets. In other words, an IoT solution comprises one or more IoT devices that constantly communicate with one or more back-end servers in the cloud.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Azure and IoT
  • An overview of Azure IoT
  • Device management
  • Registering devices
  • Device-to-IoT-hub communication
  • Scaling IoT solutions
  • High availability for IoT solutions
  • IoT protocols
  • Using message properties to route...