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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)

Terraform

Terraform, developed by HashiCorp, is an open source tool designed to simplify the management of cloud infrastructure using IaC principles. With Terraform configuration files, you can define the desired state of your infrastructure topology and efficiently provision and manage various types of infrastructure, including public clouds, private clouds, and SaaS services. By using Terraform providers, you can seamlessly integrate with different cloud platforms, ensuring a unified and consistent workflow for managing your entire infrastructure. This streamlined approach reduces manual effort, increases efficiency, and enhances the overall management of your cloud infrastructure.

Terraform operates as a declarative framework that empowers the deployment and configuration of infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms, including Azure. One of its key benefits is its cloud-agnostic nature, enabling users to implement the same framework across different cloud providers. While...