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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By : Greg Leonardo
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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By: Greg Leonardo

Overview of this book

Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership. Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, followed by exploring the database options it offers. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory and Identity Solution. Moving on, you’ll learn how to extend DevOps to Azure. You will also beneft from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and cloud. The book will help you to design a secure environment for your solution, on both the Cloud and hybrid. Toward the end, you’ll see how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions. By the end of this book, you will be armed with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solutions on Azure, whether it’s for a brand new project or migration project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


Now that we have created our tenant, subscriptions, and our first resource group using the Marketplace, let's review some key points and terminology.  A tenant is the virtual representation and the main container for all of your organization resources in Azure and is Azure Active Directory backed for security and identity management. A subscription is a container that groups resources and users together and has resource limits. You want to take a simplistic approach to create a subscriptions as they have sharing boundaries. Additionally, you want to use resource groups as an application life cycle container to house the resources required for your application. You will want to leverage the marketplace or ARM templates as deployment process for your resources within a resources group, allowing the DSC to manage the state of the resources within the resource group.  Use dashboards to view your resource groups in order to monitor and support your deployed resources.

With this new understanding, you might ask, I have an existing application I would love to move to Azure.  The next part of our journey will look at migrating or leveraging parts of Azure with your existing applications. We will cover everything from lift and shift to hybrid solutions, and what it means to host them.