Azure for Architects: Implementing cloud design, DevOps, containers, IoT, and serverless solutions on your public cloud, 2nd Edition

by Ritesh Modi

Key Features Get familiar with the different design patterns available in Microsoft Azure Develop Azure cloud architecture and a pipeline management system Get to know the security best practices for your Azure deployment Book Description

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements.

This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on.

Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements.

By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.

What you will learn Familiarize yourself with the components of the Azure Cloud platform Understand the cloud design patterns Use enterprise security guidelines for your Azure deployment Design and implement Serverless solutions See Cloud architecture and the deployment pipeline Understand cost management for Azure solutions About the Author

Ritesh Modi is a former Microsoft senior technology evangelist currently working as a principal consultant for Infront Consulting Group. He is an architect, a senior evangelist, cloud architect, published author, speaker, and a known leader for his contributions towards datacenter, Azure, bots, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, artificial intelligence, and automation. He is the author of multiple books. Developing Bots using Bot Framework and DevOps with Windows Server 2016 are some of his recent books. He has also coauthored another book, titled Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, along with the Windows Server team.

He has spoken at more than 15 conferences, including TechEd and the PowerShell Asia Conference, and is a published author for MSDN magazine. He has more than a decade of experience in building and deploying enterprise solutions for customers, and more than 25 technical certifications. His interests and hobbies include writing books, playing with his daughter, watching movies, and continuing to learn new technologies. His Twitter handle is @automationnext.

Ritesh currently lives in Hyderabad, India.

Table of Contents Getting Started Azure Design Patterns Designing High Availability Implementing Scalability Cloud Security Designing IoT Solutions Designing and Implementing Data Solutions Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags DevOps on Azure Cost Management Monitoring and Auditing

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction

536 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2019

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poorly written, abysmally edited, nevertheless: quite useful.

[Matt Malin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This had so many typographical errors, typos, sections rearranged across chapters. This was poorly written.

However, it did cover a range of topics to give description across a range of products within Microsoft Azure, which was the purpose I bought book, so it did serve some purpose.

There is also a strange mix of target audience for this: it gives some low level detail needed to set up with hands on examples, but doesn't quite give enough comparative high level descriptions to be a good architectural driven book.

[Anil · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is good back for you to understand azure concepts. It speaks more about the different patterns of processing requests, implementing the data solutions, IOT, Serverless architecture, azure monitoring, DevOps practises with Azure, Monitoring.

It is a book for the ones who want to step from roles of Leads to Architects.

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Badly written. Badly edited. The authors were simultaneously repetitive and unclear. The diagrams were poorly coloured and it was a lot of work to figure out which boxes or parts matched which part of the legend. I’ve tried a couple of other Packt Publishing books in the past and they’ve all had the same problems. I won’t be reading any more books from Packt.

[Bryant Bolden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for learning the core components of azure...a little dated now.

[Craig Nicol · Rating 2 out of 5]

a quick summary of key areas within Azure, but nothing new on top of the Microsoft documentation. Author appears to have a much stronger understanding of Ops than Dev, although wires about both.

[Debashish Mishra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Though it's titled for architects, It's actually for dummies.

The author goes to a great length in showing how to set up certain things. These are best left for lab exercises. The UI changes frequently and all these screenshots etc. will be irrelevant soon.

Also he doesn't do justice on other key factors involved architectural decisions, various patterns and practices, why we need that solution, competitive other products and solutions etc.

Overall I don't regret reading this book, but will recommend with caution.