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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)

Virtual machine scale sets

Virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) are an Azure compute resource that you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. With all VMs configured in the same way, scale sets are designed to support true auto scale, and no pre-provisioning of VMs is required. It helps in provisioning multiple identical virtual machines connected to each other through a virtual network and subnet.

VMSS creates a set that can be created, configured, and managed as a unit. All virtual machines are part of this unit and any changes made are applied to the unit, which in turn applies it to virtual machines using a pre-determined algorithm.

It allows these virtual machines to be load balanced using Azure load balancer or application gateways. All the virtual machines could be either Windows or Linux operating system. They can run automated scripts using a PowerShell extension...