Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying, and Managing the Cloud

by Julian Soh

PART I   Introducing Microsoft Azure

Ch 1. Microsoft Azure and Cloud Computing

Overview of Microsoft Azure services

Azure concepts

Availability Zones

Security, Compliance, and Privacy primer

Azure licensing and cost management concepts

Subscriptions

Ch 2. Overview of Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) services

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Networking

Hybrid data center design concepts (private-public cloud)

Hybrid data center operations and monitoring

IaaS security considerations

Ch 3.  Overview of Azure Platform-as-a-Service

Azure Storage Accounts

Azure WebApps

Azure Database Services

Azure PaaS networking services

Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive Services

Azure Load Balancers

Azure Batch

Ch 4.  Azure  AppDev Services   Overview

Azure DevOps and GitHub

Azure IaaS as code

Visual Studio

Containers - AKS

5. Ethical AI, Azure AI, and Machine Learning

Azure for the modern Data Engineers

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Data Lake Service (gen 2)

Azure Data Factory v2

Cognitive Services

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

 

PART II Planning and adopting Azure

6.  Budgeting and cloud economics

Using assessment tools - Microsoft Movere

Understanding Cloud Economics - CapEx vs OpEx

Forecasting and other cost saving features

Autoscaling

Reserved Instances

Service Level Agreement in LRS vs GRS

Azure Cost Mgmt and Billing

7. Designing a Hybrid Data Center

Networking considerations

PaaS Considerations

Identity and Access Management

Security and monitoring

8.Tools, training, and upskilling existing IT personnel

Available and required minimum training

Assembling the toolkit for the Cloud engineer

PowerShell ISE

Visual Studio Code

Azure Storage Explorer

ARM Templates

Hashicorp Terraform

Source control

Common Mistakes

 

PART III Using Azure for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

9. Implementing Azur networking

Designing and implementing Virtual Networks (vNets)

Implementing Site-to-Site VPN

Implementing ExpressRoute

ER Direct

Global Reach

Implementing Network Security Groups

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560 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2020