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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

DevOps for virtual machine (IaaS) based solutions

The typical architecture for IaaS virtual machine based solution is shown next:

Azure virtual machine

Azure virtual machines hosting web applications, application servers, database, and other services are provisioned using ARM templates. Each virtual machine has a single network card with a public IP assigned to it. They are attached to a virtual network and have a private IP address from the same network. The public IP for virtual machines is optional since they are attached to a public load balancer. These virtual machines are based on a Windows 2016 server image. Operational insights agents are installed on virtual machines for monitoring the virtual machines. PowerShell...