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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Running Azure Web Apps in a dedicated environment

Azure Web Apps use public endpoints and are usually accessed over the internet without any restrictions. In a case where more isolated access is needed, there is another option: Azure App Service Environment (ASE). Azure ASE offers a fully isolated and dedicated environment for secure applications at high scale. Azure ASE is usually used with workloads that require very high scale, isolated and secure network access, and high memory utilization. As ASE comes as a dedicated environment, this eliminates the problem of noisy neighbors (performance issues that may result from another application sharing the same host) and allow you to fully utilize all resources.

An Azure App Service Plan can be connected to an Azure VNet, but this requires additional work. On other hand, ASE comes automatically connected to a VNet and can be accessed...