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The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

By : Stéphane Eyskens, Ed Price
Book Image

The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

By: Stéphane Eyskens, Ed Price

Overview of this book

Azure offers a wide range of services that enable a million ways to architect your solutions. Complete with original maps and expert analysis, this book will help you to explore Azure and choose the best solutions for your unique requirements. Starting with the key aspects of architecture, this book shows you how to map different architectural perspectives and covers a variety of use cases for each architectural discipline. You'll get acquainted with the basic cloud vocabulary and learn which strategic aspects to consider for a successful cloud journey. As you advance through the chapters, you'll understand technical considerations from the perspective of a solutions architect. You'll then explore infrastructure aspects, such as network, disaster recovery, and high availability, and leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform. The book also guides you through cloud design patterns, distributed architecture, and ecosystem solutions, such as Dapr, from an application architect's perspective. You'll work with both traditional (ETL and OLAP) and modern data practices (big data and advanced analytics) in the cloud and finally get to grips with cloud native security. By the end of this book, you'll have picked up best practices and more rounded knowledge of the different architectural perspectives.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Section 1: Solution and Infrastructure
6
Section 2: Application Development, Data, and Security
10
Section 3: Summary

Technical requirements

Admittedly, pure architecture is not typically hands-on. However, by the end of the chapter, we will have walked you through the design of a reference architecture and its corresponding code implementation. To open the physical reference architecture file and test the code, you will need the following:

  • Visual Studio 2019 to run and debug the provided .NET Core program locally. It makes use of a local Azure Storage emulator and the Azure Functions runtime.
  • Fiddler, Postman, or any HTTP tool you want, to send HTTP requests to our program.
  • Microsoft Visio to open the diagrams. We also provide the corresponding PNG files.

The full code files are available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Azure-Cloud-Native-Architecture-Mapbook/tree/master/Chapter02.

The CiA videos for this book can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/3pp9vIH