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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 Azure helps with DevOps


Now, you can also use the Deployment Center link in the menu structure to connect to your or third party source repository to deploy, as well as from the Azure Portal. Now, I would only use this if you needed a quick POC deployment over a traditional process, but I did want to note and show the Deployment Center option, as we see in the following screenshot:

Deployment Center

This can be leveraged as a CI/CD, as things that are checked into the repository will get deployed, but as I stated, I prefer a more robust system that matches requirement to code for better overall project tracking. As you can see in the preceding figure, you can use:

  • Azure DevOps (still says VSTS)
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • Local Git
  • OneDrive
  • Dropbox
  • External
  • FTP

The Azure DevOps will create a pipeline for you in your Azure DevOps project or link to an existing one. This gives great flexibility in creating your pipeline for deployments. But again, create a process that works for you and your team that meets...