"Updated to included expanded information on data resources, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and collaboration, Microsoft Azure For Dummies, 2nd edition answers the call for an entry-level, comprehensive guide that provides a simple-to-understand primer on core Azure services. It's an invaluable resource for IT managers and others arriving at the platform for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with...

For cloud environments to operate and scale as they should, their storage components must be designed and configured well. Now, there's a complete, best-practice guide to designing, deploying, and managing Azure storage services for maximum performance, scalability, and value. Writing for every professional involved in delivering Azure workloads and services, leading enterprise cloud consultant Avinash Valiramani shows how to make the most of Azure...

Get introduced to Azure Arc-enabled data services and the powerful capabilities they provide to deploy and manage local, on-premises, and hybrid cloud data resources using the same centralized management and tooling you get from the Azure cloud. This book shows how you can deploy and manage databases running on SQL Server and Posgres in your corporate data center as if they were part of the Azure platform. You will learn how to benefit from the centralized...

Learn best practices and the proper use of Azure management tools, such as Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and ARM templates, which are time-saving tools that support daily administration tasks such as monitoring, alerting, backups, security, and more. This book explores common Azure services, including Azure networking, virtual machines, app services, backup, monitoring, and other tools of the trade that IT professionals use on a regular...

For cloud environments to operate and scale as they should, their networking components must be designed and configured well. Now, there’s a complete, best-practice guide to designing, deploying, and managing Azure networking services for maximum performance, scalability, and value. Writing for every professional involved in delivering Azure workloads and services, leading enterprise cloud consultant Avinash Valiramani shows how to make the...

Organizations have varying circumstances, objectives, and prerequisites when contemplating a hyper-scale cloud solution transformation to a platform such as Azure. Modernizing Legacy Applications to Microsoft Azure uncovers potential scenarios and provides choices, methodologies, techniques, and prospective possibilities for transitioning from legacy applications to the Microsoft Azure environment. You’ll start by understanding the legacy systems...

Get started with the foundations of Infrastructure as Code and learn how Terraform can automate the deployment and management of resources on Azure. This book covers all of the software engineering practices related to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code with Azure as a cloud provider. The book starts with an introduction to Infrastructure as Code and covers basic concepts, principles, and tools, followed by an overview of Azure and Terraform that...

Improve your Azure architecture practice and set out on a cloud and cloud-native journey with this Azure cloud native architecture guide Key Features Discover the key drivers of successful Azure architecture Implement architecture maps as a compass to tackle any challenge Understand architecture maps in detail with the help of practical use cases Book DescriptionAzure offers a wide range of services that enable a million ways to architect your solutions....

Welcome to this introductory guide to using Microsofts Azure Arc service, a new multi-cloud management platform that belongs in every cloud or DevOps estate. As many IT pros know, servers and Azure Kubernetes Service drive a huge amount of consumption in Azureso why not extend familiar management tools proven in Azure to on-premise and other cloud networks? This practical guide will get you up to speed quickly, with instruction that treads light on...