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Learn Microsoft Azure

By : Mohamed Waly
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Learn Microsoft Azure

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Azure is one of the leading public cloud service providers. Thanks to a number of Azure service updates, it continues to make advances in the realm of cloud computing. Learn Microsoft Azure starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing. You will learn to configure and set up the Azure infrastructure. As you make your way through the book, you'll explore Azure services, along with working on virtual memory systems (VMS) and deployment models. You will understand various services in the Azure ecosystem, such as Azure IoT and Azure Analytics, among others. An easy-to-follow introduction to various cloud design patterns will also add to your efficiency in designing cloud solutions. In the concluding chapters, you'll secure your virtual networks using Network security groups and configure Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to set a custom domain name and company profile. By the end of this book, you will have learned to secure and troubleshoot your Azure cloud environment and be fully aware of best practices for Azure cloud administration.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Azure VNet related services

There are many Azure networking services related to Azure VNets, such as public IPs, network interface cards (NICs), and so on. In this section, we will look into each of these services.

Public IPs

When you get familiar with Azure services, you will note that there are many Azure services that require public IPs, such as Azure VMs, Azure SQL servers, Azure load balancers, and much more. Fortunately, Microsoft provides public IPs that can be used.

For a while you got to create every public IP address without knowing which IP address would be assigned to you, but Azure recently released a new service, called public IP prefixes, that helps you to create a set of public IPs that are reserved for you...