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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

How I approach guidance


When I started out in my development career, we deployed to things we controlled, such as servers or VMs within the organization.  One of the biggest things I had to learn as we moved away from on-premises infrastructure, and away from VMs as a whole into the cloud, was that I don’t have all the tools or logs to diagnose issues when they arise. This becomes important because while logging was important, it was often skipped because of time constraints on development. In Azure, the tools and logs are a bit harder to understand and control. You should also develop your applications to be more self-healing and fail gracefully, and if you don’t plan on logging you can create issues with troubleshooting or support your applications. I personally use NLog and Application Insights to help solve these issues in Azure. They help me with monitoring and alerting, and I can also leverage Azure Monitor or OMS to bring everything together. I would at approaching the development...