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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

Azure Blueprints

You will be familiar with the word blueprint, which refers to the plan or drawing that is used by an architect to architect a solution. Similarly, in Azure, cloud architects can leverage Azure Blueprints to define a set of repeatable Azure resources that adheres to an organization's standards, processes, and patterns.

Blueprints allows us to orchestrate the deployment of various resources and other artifacts, such as:

  • Role assignments
  • Policy assignments
  • Azure Resource Manager templates
  • Resource groups

Azure blueprint objects are replicated to multiple regions and are backed by Azure Cosmos DB. The replication helps in providing consistent access to resources and maintaining the organization's standards irrespective of which region you are deploying to.

Azure Blueprints comprises various artifacts, and you can find the list of supported artifacts here: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/blueprints/overview#blueprint...