▶Book Description
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.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Create an end-to-end integration solution using Azure Serverless Stack
⦁ Learn Big Data solutions and OLTP–based applications on Azure
⦁ Understand DevOps implementations using Azure DevOps
⦁ Architect solutions comprised of multiple resources in Azure
⦁ Develop modular ARM templates
⦁ Develop Governance on Azure using locks, RBAC, policies, tags and cost
⦁ Learn ways to build data solutions on Azure
⦁ Understand the various options related to containers including Azure Kubernetes Services
▶Key Features
⦁ Get familiar with the different design patterns available in Microsoft Azure
⦁ Develop Azure cloud architecture and a pipeline management system
⦁ Get to know the security best practices for your Azure deployment
▶Who This Book Is For
If you are Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers, or developers who want to learn key architectural aspects of the Azure Cloud platform, then this book is for you.
Prior basic knowledge of the Azure Cloud platform is good to have.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Getting Started, introduces the Azure cloud platform. It provides details regarding IaaS and PaaS and provides an introduction to some of the important features that help in designing solutions.
⦁ Chapter 2, Azure Solution Availability and Scalability, takes you through an architect's perspective for deploying highly available and scalable applications on Azure.
⦁ Chapter 3, Security and Monitoring, helps you to understand how security is undoubtedly the most important non-functional requirement for architects to implement.
⦁ Chapter 4, Cross-Subscription Deployments Using ARM Templates, explains how ARM templates are the preferred mechanism for provisioning resources.
⦁ Chapter 5, ARM Templates – Modular Design and Implementation, focuses on writing modular, maintainable, and extensible Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
⦁ Chapter 6, Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions, focuses on providing an explanation of the serverless paradigm, Azure Functions, and their capabilities.
⦁ Chapter 7, Azure Integration Solutions, is a continuation of the previous chapter, continuing the discussion on Serverless technologies, covering Azure Event Grid as part of serverless events, and Azure Logic Apps as part of Serverless workflows.
⦁ Chapter 8, Cost Management, focuses on calculating the cost of deployment on Azure using the Azure cost calculator. It also demonstrates how changing the location, size, and type of resources affects the cost of solutions and provides best practices for reducing the overall cost of Azure deployments.
⦁ Chapter 9, Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags, helps you to understand the best practices for implementing policies and locks, and how both can work together to provide complete control over Azure resources.
⦁ Chapter 10, Azure Solutions Using Azure Container Services, sheds some light on numerous services, including Azure Container Services, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Container Instances for hosting containers, as well managing them using orchestration services such as Kubernetes.
⦁ Chapter 11, Azure DevOps, is about adopting and implementing practices that reduce risk considerably and ensure that high-quality software can be delivered to the customer.
⦁ Chapter 12, Azure OLTP Solutions Using Azure SQL Sharding, Pools, and Hybrid, focuses on various aspects of using the transaction data store, such as Azure SQL, and other open source databases typically used in OLTP applications.
⦁ Chapter 13, Azure Big Data Solutions Using Azure Data Lake Storage and Data Factory, focuses on big data solutions on Azure. We will study Data Lake Storage, Data Lake Analytics, and Data Factory.
⦁ Chapter 14, Azure Stream Analytics and Event Hubs, concerns the creation of solutions for these events. It focuses on reading these events, storing and processing them, and then making sense of them.
⦁ Chapter 15, Designing IoT Solutions, covers topics related to IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Event Hubs, registering devices, device-to-platform conversion, and logging and routing data to appropriate destinations.
