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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

DevOps for PaaS solutions

The typical architecture for Azure PaaS app services is based on the solution shown next:

The architecture shows some of the important components, such as Azure SQL, storage accounts, version control system, and more that participate in Azure app services based cloud solution architecture. These artifacts should be created using Azure resource manager templates. These ARM templates should be part of the overall configuration management strategy. It can have its own build and release management pipelines very similar to the one shown in the previous section:

The ARM template should also configure continuous deployment by configuring Deployment options.

Azure app services

Azure app service provides...