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Azure for Architects

By : Ritesh Modi

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Azure for Architects

3.9 (23)

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Getting Started

Getting Started

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

What is Azure?

Azure as an intelligent cloud

Azure Resource Manager

Virtualization

Containers

Docker

Interacting with intelligent cloud

Summary

Azure Design Patterns

Azure Design Patterns

Azure zones and regions

Virtual network

Storage

Design patterns

Summary

Designing High Availability

Designing High Availability

High Availability

Azure High Availability

Load balancing

Azure Traffic Manager

Architectural considerations for High Availability

Best practices

Summary

Implementing Scalability

Implementing Scalability

Scalability

Scalability versus performance

Azure scalability

Virtual machine scale sets

Scaling best practices

Summary

Cloud Security

Cloud Security

Security

Azure security

Summary

Designing IoT Solutions

Designing IoT Solutions

IoT

IoT architecture

Azure IoT

IoT hubs

High availability

Summary

Designing and Implementing Data Solutions

Designing and Implementing Data Solutions

Azure SQL

Azure SQL scaling out

Stream analytics

Azure data factory

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake store

Azure Data Lake analytics

Azure SQL data warehouse

Table storage

Summary

Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions

Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions

A short history of serverless

Serverless

Principles of serverless technology

Azure functions or functions as a service - FaaS

Azure functions advantages

Azure functions use cases

Types of Azure functions

Creating your first Azure function

Creating an event-driven function

Creating a connected architecture with functions

Summary

Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags

Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags

Azure tags

Azure policies

Azure locks

Azure RBAC

Examples of implementing Azure governance features

Summary

DevOps on Azure

DevOps on Azure

What is DevOps?

DevOps practices

Visual Studio Team Services

Preparing for DevOps

DevOps for PaaS solutions

DevOps for virtual machine (IaaS) based solutions

DevOps for container based (IaaS) solutions

Azure automation

Azure for DevOps

Summary

Cost Management

Cost Management

Understanding billing

Invoicing

Enterprise agreement customers

Usage and quotas

Resource providers

Usage and billing API

Azure pricing models

Azure pricing calculator

Best practices

Summary

Monitoring and Auditing

Monitoring and Auditing

Monitoring

Azure monitoring

Application insights

Log analytics

Executing runbooks on Alerts

Integrating Power BI

Summary

Preparing for DevOps

In this chapter from henceforth, focus will be on process and deployment automation using different patterns in Azure. These include the following:

DevOps for IaaS solutions
DevOps for PaaS solutions
DevOps for container based solution

Generally, there are common shared services not unique to any one application. Their services are consumed by multiple applications from different environments such as development, testing, and production. The life cycle of these common shared services is different from other applications. Therefore, they have different version control accounts, a different codebase, build and release management. They have their own cycle of plan-design-build-test and release.

The resources that are part of this group are provisioned using ARM templates, PowerShell, and DSC configurations.

The overall flow for building these common components...

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