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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide

Release Date: 2021/05/01
ISBN: 9781801077972
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Leverage Azure's cloud capabilities to find the most optimized path to meet your firm's cloud infrastructure needs

Key Features

  • Get to grips with the core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
  • Develop the ability to opt for cloud design and architecture that best fits your organization
  • Cover the entire spectrum of cloud migration from planning to implementation and best practices

Book Description

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy.

This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management.

The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.

By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.

What you will learn

  • Understand core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
  • Carry out detailed planning for migrating applications to the cloud with Azure
  • Deploy and run Azure infrastructure services
  • Define roles and responsibilities in DevOps
  • Get a firm grip on Azure security fundamentals
  • Carry out cost optimization in Azure

Who this book is for

This book is designed to benefit Azure architects, cloud solution architects, Azure developers, Azure administrators, and anyone who wants to develop expertise in operating and administering the Azure cloud. Basic familiarity with operating systems and databases will help you grasp the concepts covered in this book.

Table of Contents

  1. Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition
  2. Preface
    1. About Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition
    2. About the authors
    3. About the reviewers
    4. Learning objectives
    5. Audience
    6. Approach
    7. Hardware requirements
    8. Software requirements
    9. Conventions
  3. 1. Introduction
    1. What is Microsoft Azure?
    2. Approaches for Azure adoption
    3. Public cloud
    4. Private cloud
    5. Hybrid cloud
    6. Multicloud
    7. Edge computing
    8. Azure migration strategies
    9. Re-hosting
    10. Re-platforming
    11. Refactoring
    12. Business benefits of Azure infrastructure
    13. Helpful links
  4. 2. Automation and governance in Azure
    1. Azure DevOps
    2. ARM templates
    3. Deploying Azure IaC
    4. Benefits of Azure IaC
    5. Best practices
    6. Parameters
    7. Variables
    8. Resources
    9. Identity and access control
    10. What are the security benefits of Azure?
    11. Best practices
    12. Azure governance
    13. What are the benefits?
    14. Summary
    15. Important links
  5. 3. Modernizing with hybrid cloud and multicloud
    1. What is hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge computing?
    2. What makes a hybrid and multicloud strategy successful?
    3. Azure Arc overview
    4. Kubernetes app management at scale
    5. Azure Arc enabled servers
    6. Azure Arc enabled data services
    7. Prerequisites for Azure data services
    8. Connectivity modes
    9. Connectivity requirements
    10. Azure Arc data controller creation
    11. Azure Arc in GitHub
    12. Modernizing your datacenter with Azure Stack
    13. Azure Stack Hub overview
    14. Use cases for Azure Stack Hub
    15. Azure Stack Hub architecture
    16. Azure Stack Hub identity provider
    17. How is Azure Stack Hub managed?
    18. Resource providers
    19. Azure Stack Hub administration basics
    20. Getting support
    21. Azure Stack Development Kit
    22. Azure Stack Hub update management
    23. Azure Stack HCI solution overview
    24. Azure Stack HCI use cases
    25. Azure integration benefits
    26. Azure Stack HCI prerequisites
    27. Hardware partners
    28. Software partners
    29. Licensing, billing, and pricing
    30. Management tools
    31. Getting started with Azure Stack HCI and Windows Admin Center
    32. Installing Windows Admin Center
    33. Adding and connecting to an Azure Stack HCI cluster
    34. Comparing Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI
    35. Summary
  6. 4. Cloud migration: Planning, implementation, and best practices
    1. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
    2. Choosing your underlying infrastructure
    3. Compute
    4. Networking
    5. Storage
    6. Workload migration scenarios
    7. Windows Server and Linux workloads
    8. SQL Server
    9. Containers
    10. VMware workloads
    11. SAP workloads
    12. High-performance computing
    13. Achieving cloud scale and maximizing performance
    14. Azure autoscaling
    15. Compute and storage performance considerations
    16. Enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery
    17. Azure Backup
    18. Azure Site Recovery
    19. Azure migration best practices and support
    20. The official Azure documentation
    21. Azure Migrate
    22. Azure Migration Program
    23. Azure Architecture Center
    24. Azure App Service
    25. Azure SQL Database
    26. Free training with Microsoft Learn
    27. Contact an Azure sales specialist
    28. Summary
  7. 5. Enabling secure, remote work with Microsoft Azure AD and WVD
    1. The fundamentals of deploying remote work infrastructure
    2. Azure Active Directory
    3. Plan your environment
    4. Configuring Azure AD and hybrid environments
    5. Secure your identity infrastructure
    6. Enabling remote connectivity
    7. Azure Virtual WAN
    8. Azure VPN
    9. Securing and managing traffic to your workloads
    10. Application Gateway with WAF
    11. Azure Firewall
    12. Azure Load Balancer and cross-region load balancing
    13. Azure Bastion and Just-in-Time (JIT) access
    14. Enabling remote work with Windows Virtual Desktop
    15. Network guidelines
    16. Managing user profiles with Azure Files and NetApp Files
    17. Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop
    18. Windows Virtual Desktop partner integrations
    19. Summary
  8. 6. Security fundamentals to help protect against cybercrime
    1. Enabling security for remote workers
    2. Security operations excellence
    3. Cyber Defense Operations Center
    4. Protect
    5. Detect
    6. Respond
    7. Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
    8. Gain visibility into your entire infrastructure with Azure Security Center
    9. Security posture management and multicloud
    10. Azure Security Center architecture
    11. Azure Security Benchmark
    12. Achieve advanced threat protection for your hybrid and multicloud environments with Azure Defender
    13. Azure Defender dashboard
    14. Best practices for securing your network
    15. Modernize your security operations with Azure Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM
    16. A unified SecOps experience
    17. Summary
  9. 7. Offers, support, resources, and tips to optimize cost in Azure
    1. Understanding and forecasting your costs
    2. Cloud economics
    3. Cost management tools
    4. Choosing the right pricing model
    5. Optimizing your costs
    6. Azure Advisor
    7. Azure Hybrid Benefit
    8. Azure reservations
    9. Spot Virtual Machines
    10. DevTest pricing
    11. Optimization checklist
    12. Summary
  10. 8. Conclusion
    1. Resources
    2. Glossary
  11. Index
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