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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By : Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams
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Azure Integration Guide for Business

By: Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business. The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business. By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Understanding IaC

IaC is an essential practice within DevOps and a critical component of continuous delivery. It encompasses the management of infrastructure elements, including networks, compute services, databases, storage, and connection topology, through a descriptive model. By adopting IaC, teams can accelerate the development and release of changes across various environments while maintaining a high level of confidence. IaC enables DevOps teams to collaborate seamlessly, providing a unified set of practices and tools to swiftly and reliably deliver applications and their associated infrastructure at scale. This approach promotes agility, scalability, and consistency in the software delivery process, facilitating faster time-to-market and improved overall efficiency.

To get the most out of IaC, development teams should follow these principles:

  • Declarative definition: IaC uses a declarative definition of infrastructure resources, which describes the desired state of...