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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

Overview of this book

Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the logical progression of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true hybrid cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Azure Stack and the cloud-first approach. Starting with an introduction to the architecture of Azure Stack, the book will help you plan and deploy your Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the network and storage options in Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate public cloud using the third-party resource provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of the end-to-end process of designing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Considerations for creating a Plan and Offer


We will start with a short definition of Plan, Offer, and Subscription to create a basic understanding of those terms.

  • Plans are used to group services together that you want to Offer your end users (tenants).
  • Offers are created by the Azure Stack service administrator and include one or more Plans. Therefore all the services that are grouped into a Plan are then Offered to the end user through your Offer.
  • Subscription is the method used by an end user (tenant) to get (subscribe to) the services the end user wants to use. The end user creates a Subscription in the Azure Stack portal and selects your public Offers. Another approach is for you to approve each Subscription in cases where your Offer is private. Billing is part of a Subscription so that all services/resources used by the end users Subscription is billed to them.

The following diagram provides an overview of the relationship between Plan | Offer | Subscription. There is a large community...