Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches (pdf)

Description

About the Technology

With hundreds of features and prebuilt services, the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is vast and powerful. To master it, you need a trustworthy guide. In this hands-on book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on the core skills you need to create and maintain cloud-based applications.

About the Book

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches teaches you the foundational techniques for writing, deploying, and running cloud-based applications in Azure. In it, you’ll master the basics, including setting up cloud-based virtual machines, deploying web servers, and using hosted data stores. As you work through the book’s 21 carefully planned lessons, you’ll explore big-picture concerns like security, scaling, and automation.You’ll even dabble in Azure’s prebuilt services for machine containers, and serverless computing!

What’s Inside

• Getting started, from your first login
• Writing and deploying web servers
• Securing your applications and data
• Automating your environment
• Azure services for machine learning, serverless computing, and more

About the Reader

Readers should be able to write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.

About the Author

Iain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft. .

Table of Contents

PART 1 – AZURE CORE SERVICES

• • Before you begin
  • Creating a virtual machine
  • Azure Web Apps
  • Introduction to Azure Storage
  • Azure Networking basics

PART 2 – HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE

• • Azure Resource Manager
  • High availability and redundancy
  • Load-balancing applications
  • Applications that scale
  • Global databases with Cosmos DB
  • Managing network traffic and routing
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting

PART 3 – SECURE BY DEFAULT

• • Backup, recovery, and replication
  • Data encryption
  • Securing information with Azure Key Vault
  • Azure Security Center and updates

PART 4 – THE COOL STUFF

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Azure Automation
• Azure containers
• Azure and the Internet of Things
• Serverless computing