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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understanding the Cloud Service architecture


We now come to the topic Cloud Service architecture. Look at the following diagram:

As you can see, an Azure Cloud Service consists of the following two elements:

  • Cloud Services Package: The service package (ServicePackage.cspkg) is a ZIP file and it includes the Service Definition File (ServiceDefinition.csdef) and the Code Assets for the service and the required binary-based dependencies
  • Service Configuration File: ServiceConfig.cscfg

As you also can see, the Service Configuration File is outside of the Cloud Service Package. This is because changes in the configuration can be made without interruption at runtime (by uploading a new Service Configuration File). However, changes to the service itself require a redeployment of the Cloud Service Package.

Roles

Let us continue with the next diagram and the other elements of the Cloud Services architecture. These elements are called roles and they are created by the Service Definition File and the code...