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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

Centralized Diagnostics Service


Problem

Diagnostics are a critical part of any system which provides insights about the state, health and transactions handled by the system. System logs and call-traces form the primary sources for diagnostics information. With every Microservice instance continuously generating logs and traces, maintaining, querying, and accessing these logs from different sources becomes an operational challenge. When logs are persisted in multiple stores, generating insights, and alerting also becomes complicated. Following is an illustration of an operations team receiving diagnostics information from distributed systems:

Centralized Diagnostics (Problem)

Solution

The solution to this problem is to delegate logging and tracing responsibilities to a separate service which can consolidate diagnostics information from multiple Microservices/Microservice-instances and persist it in a centralized store. This also helps in decoupling the diagnostics activities from business logic...