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Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

By : Michalski, Stefano Demiliani

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Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

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Overview of this book

A well designed cloud infrastructure covers factors such as consistency, maintenance, simplified administration and development, and reusability. Hence it is important to choose the right architectural pattern as it has a huge impact on the quality of cloud-hosted services. This book covers all Azure design patterns and functionalities to help you build your cloud infrastructure so it fits your system requirements. This book initially covers design patterns that are focused on factors such as availability and data management/monitoring. Then the focus shifts to complex design patterns such as multitasking, improving scalability, valet keys, and so on, with practical use cases. The book also supplies best practices to improve the security and performance of your cloud. By the end of this book, you will thoroughly be familiar with the different design and architectural patterns available with Windows Azure and capable of choosing the best pattern for your system.

Preface

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What this book covers

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An Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Platform

Cloud service models and cloud deployment models

Azure execution models

Azure application building blocks

Azure data services

Azure platform services

How is access to Azure organized?

How is work with Azure organized?

Summary

Compute Design and Management

IaaS I (Azure VMs)

IaaS II (Azure Container Services)

PaaS I (Azure App Services)

PaaS II (Azure Service Fabric, also known as Azure microservices)

Summary

Data Storing and Processing

Choosing the right data solution

Which Azure data services are available?

Summary

Networking Design and Management

Anatomy of a VNet infrastructure

Connectivity

Routing, load balancing, or more general traffic directions

Security

Security infrastructure

Management and monitoring

Summary

Availability

What is availability?

Uptime and downtime

SLA

Planned maintenance

Azure autoscaling

Summary

Performance and Scalability

What is performance?

What is a DTU?

Service level objectives

Analyzing and interpreting performance data

Scaling

Summary

Monitoring and Telemetry

About telemetry data

An overview of monitoring

Azure Network Watcher

Summary

Resiliency

What is Resiliency?

Summary

Identity and Security

Security in the cloud

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An overview of monitoring

As I wrote earlier, in the second part of the chapter I would like to tell you about the different possible solutions and offerings for monitoring that the Azure platform provides.

Take a look at the following diagram:

The key element in this overview is the Azure management portal. Each service offers its own monitoring capabilities via their respective dashboards.

Some services also have service-specific tools. This refers to tools that are installed locally but are nevertheless suitable for management and monitoring tasks in the cloud sector. The following are some examples:

SQL Management Studio
SQL Operations Studio
Service Bus Explorer

Other tools that can be used to monitor your cloud are the Microsoft System Center (SC) and the Microsoft OMS. SC is a suite of tools for all conceivable management and monitoring tasks in the on-premises...