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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
Book Image

Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have 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. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Integrating PowerBI

Gathering data and storing it in a central repository is an important aspect. However, there should be tools and utilities to process the data and generate insights out of it. PowerBI is a Microsoft-provided service specifically meant for visualizing and generating insights from raw data.

PowerBI can be enabled using the Settings menu, just like the configuration for Azure Automation. The connection to PowerBI should be made from the Settings menu. Once, this connection is made, it can be used to send Log Analytics data to PowerBI.

Log Analytics provides two different ways to interact with PowerBI. First, it needs to be enabled from the Settings menu.

Like alerts, the PowerBI menu option is available from the top-level log search menu. Clicking on it allows us to configure the PowerBI connectivity. A scheduler runs periodically to execute search queries and...