A well-designed cloud infrastructure covers factors such as consistency, maintenance, simplified administration and development, security, scalability, 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 needed to help you build your cloud infrastructure to fit your system requirements. Each of these patterns describes a problem that you normally could have when implementing a cloud infrastructure—a recommended solution for your problem (pattern appliance) and pros and cons of applying this pattern.
Using a pattern (or at least thinking about it) is a recommended way of working when designing an enterprise cloud-based infrastructure.
This book is targeted at cloud architects and cloud solution providers who are looking for an extensive guide to implementing different patterns for the deployment and maintenance of services in Microsoft Azure. Prior experience with Azure is required as the book is completely focused on design patterns.
Chapter 1, An Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Platform, gives an overview of the Azure platform. Also, we will learn the basics of cloud services and cloud deployment models, the Azure execution model, the Azure application building blocks, the Azure data services, and how to access and work with Azure.
Chapter 2, Compute Design and Management, discusses the basic architectures behind the compute services from the Azure platform, such as Azure VMs, Azure Container Services, Azure App Services, and Azure Service Fabric. We will also learn that services never act alone, but rather interact with various Azure resources.
Chapter 3, Data Storing and Processing, gives basic information on data storage and processing. Here we will get an answer to the question: How do you choose the right data solution? We will also see an overview of the Azure data services that are available.
Chapter 4, Networking Design and Management, takes you through the anatomy of a VNet, and the network elements also deep dives into connectivity, routing, and more.
Chapter 5, Availability, starts with an insight into specific aspects of architecture that are important for the daily use of the Azure platform and are part of the design process for your own Azure solutions.
Chapter 6, Performance and Scalability, provides an answer to all your questions related to these topics and also part of the design process for your own Azure solutions.
Chapter 7, Monitoring and Telemetry, covers these topics in two parts. In part one, we discuss the question of what type of data we are actually talking about. In part two, we discuss the possible ways to capture this data.
Chapter 8, Resiliency, describes the recommended patterns to implement in order to create a cloud-based solution that can handle and recover from failures in a secure way without compromising data and transactions.
Chapter 9, Identity and Security, describes the recommended patterns for implementing identity and security features on Azure (for users and for applications and cloud services).
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