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Learn Microsoft Azure

By : Mohamed Waly
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Learn Microsoft Azure

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Azure is one of the leading public cloud service providers. Thanks to a number of Azure service updates, it continues to make advances in the realm of cloud computing. Learn Microsoft Azure starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing. You will learn to configure and set up the Azure infrastructure. As you make your way through the book, you'll explore Azure services, along with working on virtual memory systems (VMS) and deployment models. You will understand various services in the Azure ecosystem, such as Azure IoT and Azure Analytics, among others. An easy-to-follow introduction to various cloud design patterns will also add to your efficiency in designing cloud solutions. In the concluding chapters, you'll secure your virtual networks using Network security groups and configure Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to set a custom domain name and company profile. By the end of this book, you will have learned to secure and troubleshoot your Azure cloud environment and be fully aware of best practices for Azure cloud administration.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Microsoft Azure 101

Azure is one of the leading public cloud service providers. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that helps you build, deploy, and manage applications to overcome your business challenges. This journey starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and moves on to explaining the configuration of Azure infrastructure, exploring Azure services, and working on virtual memory systems (VMS) and deployment models in Azure. You will also see how to secure and troubleshoot your Azure cloud environment and many more exciting features, in order to be fully aware of best practices for Azure cloud administration. Let's cut to the chase and see what we have in this introductory chapter, Microsoft Azure 101. This chapter will introduce cloud computing to you and describe its evolution, the types of cloud deployment models, and the cloud services that Azure provides. After that, we'll walk through the Azure portal, introducing its components. Then, we'll discuss the Azure Resource Manager model used by Azure. Finally, you will learn about the different tools you can use to automate your tasks with Azure.

Briefly, the following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Microsoft Azure overview
  • Cloud service types
  • Azure portal experience
  • Azure Resource Manager model
  • Azure automation tools