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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
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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

Security

As mentioned before, security is an important element for any software or service. Adequate security should be implemented so that an application can only be used by people who are allowed to access it, and users should not be able to perform operations that they are not allowed to execute. Similarly, the entire request-response mechanism should be built using methods that ensure that only intended parties can understand messages, and to make sure that it is easy to detect whether messages have been tampered with or not.

For the following reasons, security in Azure is even more important. Firstly, the organizations deploying their applications are not in full control of the underlying hardware and networks. Secondly, security has to be built into every layer, including hardware, networks, operating systems, platforms, and applications. Any omissions or misconfigurations can render an application vulnerable to intruders. For example, you might have heard of the...