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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)

App Service plans

When you create an App Service, such as a Web App for example, you will be asked to specify the App Service plan.

An App Service plan is like the hardware host on which you run your VMs. It contains the resources that are shared among the App Service. As a result, we can look at App Service as VMs running on the host, which is the App Service plan.

The App Service plan also defines many settings for the App Service that will be built on it, such as the region, number of instances, whether it will be able to scale out/in or not, and much more, which will be covered later on.

Azure offers different plans to fulfill different customers' needs, such as the following:

  • Shared infrastructure plans:
    • Free plan: This is the entry level plan, and as its name implies, it's available for free. It's meant for dev/test scenarios, or if you wish to deploy a...