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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

Summary

Security is always an important aspect of any deployment or solution. It has become much more important and relevant because of deployment to the cloud. Moreover, there is an increasing threat of cyberattacks. In these circumstances, security has become a focal point for organizations. No matter the type of deployment or solution, whether it's IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, security is needed across all of them. Azure datacenters are completely secure, and they have a dozen international security certifications. They are secure by default. They provide IaaS security resources, such as NSGs, network address translation, secure endpoints, certificates, key vaults, storage, virtual machine encryption, and PaaS security features for individual PaaS resources. Security has a complete life cycle of its own and it should be properly planned, designed, implemented, and tested, just like any other application functionality.

We discussed operating system firewalls and Azure Firewall and...