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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

SQL Database (IaaS/PaaS)


An SQL Database can be implemented in Azure in two ways:

  • Using Azure SQL Database: This follows the PaaS model, and will be covered in this chapter and the next one
  • Using Azure VMs and building SQL on them: This follows the IaaS model, and will be covered in more detail shortly

 

Azure SQL Database (PaaS)

Azure SQL Database is a relational database as a service, built and hosted on Azure. It minimizes the cost of managing and provisioning databases. Using this model will reduce the responsibility for managing the virtual machines that host SQL Server, the operating system, and even the SQL Server software.

This model eliminates concerns regarding upgrades, backups, and even the high availability of databases, because they are not your responsibility anymore. Moreover, you can add databases as you wish, whenever you want. Taking this into account, you will pay less in credits because in this scenario you will not pay for a VM with SQL installed on it, plus the license credits...