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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 container based (IaaS) solutions

The typical architecture for IaaS container based solution is shown next:

Containers

Containers is also a virtualization technology, however, they do not virtualize physical servers. Instead, containers is an operating system level virtualization. What it means is that containers share the operating system kernel provided by its host among themselves along with the host. Running multiple containers on a host (physical or virtual) share the host operating system kernel. There is a single operating system kernel provided by the host and used by all containers running on top of it.

Containers are also completely isolated from their host and other containers much like a virtual machine...