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    Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way
    Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way
    Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way
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    Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way

    By Greg Leonardo

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    Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership.
    Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, followed by exploring the database options it offers. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory and Identity Solution. Moving on, you’ll learn how to extend DevOps to Azure.
    You will also beneft from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and cloud. The book will help you to design a secure environment for your solution, on both the Cloud and hybrid. Toward the end, you’ll see how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions.
    By the end of this book, you will be armed with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solutions on Azure, whether it’s for a brand new project or migration project.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateOct 31, 2018
    ISBN9781786460202
    Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way

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      Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure - Greg Leonardo

      Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

      Hands-On Cloud Solutions

      with Azure

      Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way

      Greg Leonardo

      BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

      Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

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      About the author

      Greg Leonardo has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military. He is a father, veteran, developer, teacher, speaker, Azure MVP, and an early adopter. He has have worked in many facets of IT throughout his career. He is president of #TampaCC, a community meetup, that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events throughout Tampa.

      I would like to thank my wife, Kate, and my two sons, Maddux and Lucas, for giving me the freedom to pursue sharing my experiences through this book. 

      About the reviewers

      Gajanan Chandgadkar has more than 12 years' experience in the IT sector. He has spent over 6 years in the USA helping large enterprises architect, migrate, and deploy applications in AWS and Azure. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 6 years, and on Azure for the past year. He is a certified solutions architect professional and a certified DevOps professional with over seven certifications in trending technologies. Gajanan is also a technology enthusiast who has extended his interest and experiences to include different topics, such as application development, container technology, and continuous delivery.

      He is currently working with Happiest Minds Technologies as a DevOps architect, having worked with Wipro Technologies Corporation in the past.

      Rohit Prakash is an Azure solutions engineer, with an unabashed fondness for Windows and Microsoft Azure in both disciplines. He specializes in Azure IaaS/PaaS design and implementation. In the past, he has made several contributions to Microsoft Community by contributing to TechNet articles, with a focus on Azure. He has been a member of the Microsoft BizSpark program since his college days and he has also been offered an MSDN subscription by Microsoft. He loves writing blogs as a way of sharing his thoughts.

      He works with Fujitsu Consulting India and lives in Noida, India, where his personal time is split evenly between family and friends. He enjoys visiting peaceful and devotional locations.

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright and Credits

      Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

      Packt Upsell

      Why subscribe?

      Packt.com

      Contributors

      About the author

      About the reviewers

      Packt is searching for authors like you

      Preface

      Who this book is for

      What this book covers

      To get the most out of this book

      Download the example code files

      Download the color images

      Conventions used

      Get in touch

      Reviews

      Getting Started with Azure

      Technical requirements

      What is cloud computing?

      What problems does it solve?

      What is Azure?

      Before you start, have a plan

      How do I start using Azure?

      I have set up my Tenant – what's next?

      Let's walk through a marketplace example

      Extending Directory Services to Azure

      Terminology to remember with Azure

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Moving Existing Apps to Azure

      Technical requirements

      How I approach the discussion

      Rehost

      Refactor

      Re-architect

      Rewrite

      Creating resources in the Azure Portal

      Migrating to Azure

      Let's talk SaaS migrations

      Office 365

      Let's talk IaaS

      PowerShell and ARM Template

      Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1

      azuredeploy.parameters.json

      azuredeploy.json

      Let's talk PaaS

      Deploy-Azure-WebsiteAndDatabase.parameters.json

      Deploy-Azure-WebsiteAndDatabase.template.json

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Building Solutions in Azure

      Technical requirements

      Let me Azure you of something!

      Azure blueprints

      Key Vault

      VNet

      Mobile

      IoT

      AI and Machine Learning

      Understanding responsibility

      Infrastructure as a Service

      Platform as a Service

      Software as a Service

      Azure Active Directory

      Plan for success

      Let’s talk architecture styles

      Common application patterns

      How to make technology choices

      Designing applications in Azure

      Some of my thoughts on selecting resources in Azure

      App Services

      Database services

      Storage accounts

      CosmosDB

      Microservices/containers

      Real-world examples

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Understanding the Infrastructure behind Solutions Built in Azure

      Technical requirements

      Setting up your development environment

      Managing cost

      How I approach guidance

      Understanding Infrastructure as Code

      Developing locally

      Infrastructure as Code

      How I develop locally

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Developing Solutions the Right Way in Azure

      Technical requirements

      The developer journey

      Let's talk about security

      Honorable mention – security center

      Application authentication

      Let's talk Dependency Injection

      Let's talk logging

      Let's talk about data storage

      Understanding service lifetimes

      Adding Intelligence to your solutions

      Using Application Insights

      Leveraging on-premises resources

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Deploying Solutions to Azure

      Technical requirements

      Deploying solutions in Azure

      What is DevOps?

      Azure Boards

      Azure Artifacts

      Azure Pipelines

      Azure Test Plans

      How I use Azure DevOps

      What are deployment slots?

      How Azure helps with DevOps

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Putting It All Together

      Technical requirements

      Our journey

      Dashboards

      Azure Advisors

      High Availability Advisor

      Security Advisor/Security Center

      Performance Advisor

      Cost Advisor

      Monitoring

      Core capabilities

      Shared capabilities

      Infrastructure capabilities

      Application capabilities

      Advanced topics

      What is Azure Front Door?

      What is Azure confidential computing?

      Quick tips on Azure estimating and cost control

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Best Practices to Make Your Life Easier in Azure

      Tenant and subscriptions

      Virtual machines (VMs)

      Virtual networks

      Azure App Services

      Data stores

      Azure Key Store

      Azure Mobile

      Summary

      Questions

      Further reading

      Assessments

      Chapter 1 – Getting Started with Azure

      Chapter 2 – Moving Existing Apps to Azure

      Chapter 3 – Building Solutions in Azure

      Chapter 4 – Understanding the Infrastructure behind Solutions Built in Azure

      Chapter 5 – Developing Solutions the Right Way in Azure

      Chapter 6 – Deploying Solutions to Azure

      Chapter 7 – Putting It All Together

      Chapter 8 – Best Practices to Make Your Life Easier in Azure

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      Preface

      This book will focus on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you are designing or migrating a solution to Microsoft Azure. It will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, and will then explore the database options available in Microsoft Azure. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory/Identity solution. Moving on, you will find out how to extend your DevOps to Azure. You will benefit from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and the cloud. The book will help you design a secure environment for your solution, whether on the cloud or hybrid. Toward the end, it will show you how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions. This book will arm you with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solution on Azure, whether it's a brand new project or a migration project.

      Who this book is for

      If you're an IT consultant, developer, or solutions architect looking to design effective solutions for your organization, this book is for you. Some knowledge of cloud computing will assist with understanding the key concepts covered in this book.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Getting Started with Azure, covers the things that are important when getting started with Azure.

      Chapter 2, Moving Existing Apps to Azure, includes lifting, shifting, or migrating the apps and understanding how to get the existing apps to Azure.

      Chapter 3, Building Solutions in Azure, covers the things you need to know about building and developing solutions in Azure.

      Chapter 4, Understanding the Infrastructure behind Solutions Built in Azure, explains how to leverage ARM templates and infrastructure-as-code, and helps with adopting standards to provide guidance on resource usage in Azure.

      Chapter 5, Developing Solutions the Right Way in Azure, explains how to develop solutions in Azure, things you have to trust, guidance on selecting the type of resources to develop, and explains how to leverage application insights in your application development to help with application monitoring and support.

      Chapter 6, Deploying Solutions to Azure, covers the things you need to know about deploying solutions in Azure.

      Chapter 7, Putting it All Together, includes monitoring and supporting applications and troubleshooting issues.

      Chapter 8, Best Practices to Make Your Life Easier in Azure, includes some best practices and tips on making your life easier in Azure and covers development practices in connection with dashboards and monitoring.

      To get the most out of this book

      Some basic knowledge of cloud computing would come in handy. A knowledge of other Azure services would be a bonus.

      Download the example code files

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