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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

Leveraging on-premises resources


Now, in some application development scenarios, there may be a need to reach back into an organizations network to get data.  There are many ways to accomplish this, and each has its merits, such as exposing services, writing to queues (relaying), VPNs, or Azure Express Route.  Each choice has it pros and cons, but I recommend using a secure VPN/Express Route.  This, however, has one BIG stipulation: you need to use dynamic routing. If you use static routing, this is not supported.  VPN solutions come with a premium cost but are worth it in my eyes, as they allow Azure resources to interact with on-premise resources, like the data on the internal network.  But, you should really understand your needs before venturing down this trail.

Most developers make the mistake that they need to move everything to Azure when hybrid solutions may be more in line.  This becomes apparent with larger enterprise-based systems that are not in Azure or good candidates for moving...