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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

Setting Azure Active Directory authentication


So far, we have been using SQL authentication to connect to Azure SQL Database, as we did in the previous chapter, via SQL Server Management Studio. Using Azure Active Directory (AD) will provide centralized administration for database users' identities, providing the following benefits:

  • Another method of SQL Server authentication
  • Controlling the password change for a centralized location
  • Assigning user permissions on the database level
  • Support of token-based authentication for the applications that connect to the database
  • Protection of user profiles across the database servers
  • Avoidance of the need to store passwords, as you will be able to use different methods of authentication, which we will cover shortly

In the next chapter, Azure Active Directory will be covered in more detail.

To enable Azure AD authentication for Azure SQL Database, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Azure SQL Server that you want to enable this feature for.
  1. Under Settings, click...