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Synopsis
Gain the technical and business insight needed to plan, deploy, and manage the services provided by the Microsoft Azure cloud. This second edition focuses on improving operational decision tipping points for the professionals leading DevOps and security teams. This will allow you to make an informed decision concerning the workloads appropriate for your growing business in the Azure public cloud.
Microsoft Azure starts with an introduction to Azure along with an overview of its architecture services such as IaaS and PaaS. You'll also take a look into Azure's data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services. Moving on, you will cover the planning for and adoption of Azure where you will go through budgeting, cloud economics, and designing a hybrid data center. Along the way, you will work with web apps, network PaaS, virtual machines, and much more.
The final section of the book starts with Azure data services and big data with an in-depth discussion of Azure SQL Database, CosmosDB, Azure Data Lakes, and MySQL. You will further see how to migrate on-premises databases to Azure and use data engineering. Next, you will discover the various Azure services for application developers, including Azure DevOps and ASP.NET web apps. Finally, you will go through the machine learning and AI tools in Azure, including Azure Cognitive Services.
What You Will Learn
Apply design guidance and best practices using Microsoft Azure to achieve business growth Create and manage virtual machines Work with AI frameworks to process and analyze data to support business decisions and increase revenue
Deploy, publish, and monitor a web app Who This Book Is For
Azure architects and business professionals looking for Azure deployment and implementation advice.
Synopsis
PART I Introducing Microsoft Azure
Ch 1. Microsoft Azure and Cloud Computing
Overview of Microsoft Azure services
Azure concepts
Availability Zones
Security, Compliance, and Privacy primer
Azure licensing and cost management concepts
Subscriptions
Ch 2. Overview of Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) services
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Networking
Hybrid data center design concepts (private-public cloud)
Hybrid data center operations and monitoring
IaaS security considerations
Ch 3. Overview of Azure Platform-as-a-Service
Azure Storage Accounts
Azure WebApps
Azure Database Services
Azure PaaS networking services
Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive Services
Azure Load Balancers
Azure Batch
Ch 4. Azure AppDev Services Overview
Azure DevOps and GitHub
Azure IaaS as code
Visual Studio
Containers - AKS
5. Ethical AI, Azure AI, and Machine Learning
Azure for the modern Data Engineers
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Data Lake Service (gen 2)
Azure Data Factory v2
Cognitive Services
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
PART II Planning and adopting Azure
6. Budgeting and cloud economics
Using assessment tools - Microsoft Movere
Understanding Cloud Economics - CapEx vs OpEx
Forecasting and other cost saving features
Autoscaling
Reserved Instances
Service Level Agreement in LRS vs GRS
Azure Cost Mgmt and Billing
7. Designing a Hybrid Data CenterNetworking considerations
PaaS Considerations
Identity and Access Management
Security and monitoring
8.Tools, training, and upskilling existing IT personnel
Available and required minimum training
Assembling the toolkit for the Cloud engineer
PowerShell ISE
Visual Studio Code
Azure Storage Explorer
ARM Templates
Hashicorp Terraform
Source control
Common Mistakes
PART III Using Azure for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9. Implementing Azur networkingDesigning and implementing Virtual Networks (vNets)
Implementing Site-to-Site VPN
Implementing ExpressRoute
ER Direct
Global Reach
Implementing Network Security Groups
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