Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches

373 Pages·2018·11.58 MB·English

by  Iain Foulds

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To the ABCs of my life:
Abigail, Bethany, and Charlotte
brief contents
PART 1 AZURE CORE SERVICES 1
1 ■ Beforeyoubegin 3
2 ■ Creatingavirtualmachine 15
3 ■ AzureWebApps 32
4 ■ IntroductiontoAzureStorage 46
5 ■ AzureNetworkingbasics 57
PART 2 HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE 75
6 ■ AzureResourceManager 77
7 ■ Highavailabilityandredundancy 91
8 ■ Load-balancingapplications 108
9 ■ Applicationsthatscale 127
10 ■ GlobaldatabaseswithCosmosDB 144
11 ■ Managingnetworktrafficandrouting 162
12 ■ Monitoringandtroubleshooting 181
PART 3 SECURE BY DEFAULT 199
13 ■ Backup,recovery,andreplication 201
14 ■ Dataencryption 219
15 ■ SecuringinformationwithAzureKeyVault 232
16 ■ AzureSecurityCenterandupdates 249
vii
viii BRIEFCONTENTS
PART 4 THE COOL STUFF 267
17 ■ Machinelearningandartificialintelligence 269
18 ■ AzureAutomation 284
19 ■ Azurecontainers 299
20 ■ AzureandtheInternetofThings 314
21 ■ Serverlesscomputing 331
contents
preface xvii
acknowledgments xviii
aboutthisbook xix
abouttheauthor xxiii
PART 1 AZURE CORE SERVICES...................................... 1
1 Before you begin 3
1.1 Isthisbookforyou? 3
1.2 Howtousethisbook 4
Themainchapters 4 ■ Tryitnow 5 ■ Hands-onlabs 5
Sourcecodeandsupplementarymaterials 5
1.3 Creatingyourlabenvironment 5
CreatingafreeAzureaccount 5 ■ Bonuslabexercise:Create
afreeGitHubaccount 8
1.4 Alittlehelpinghand 9
1.5 UnderstandingtheAzureplatform 9
VirtualizationinAzure 11 ■ Managementtools 13
2 Creating a virtual machine 15
2.1 CreatingaVMfromyourwebbrowser 15
Azurestorage 16 ■ Basicsettings,continued 17
VMsizes 20 ■ Settings 22
ix
x CONTENTS
2.2 ConnectingtotheVM,andinstallingthewebserver 23
ConnectingtotheVMwithSSH 23 ■ Installingtheweb
server 25
2.3 AllowingwebtraffictoreachtheVM 26
Creatingaruletoallowwebtraffic 27 ■ Viewingtheweb
serverinaction 27
2.4 Lab:CreatingaWindowsVM 29
2.5 Cleaningupresources 29
2.6 Houston,wehaveaproblem 30
3 Azure Web Apps 32
3.1 AzureWebAppsoverviewandconcepts 33
Supportedlanguagesandenvironments 33 ■ Staging
differentversionswithdeploymentslots 34
3.2 Creatingawebapp 35
Creatingabasicwebapp 35 ■ Deployingasample
HTMLsite 38
3.3 Managingwebapps 41
Viewingdiagnosticlogs 41
3.4 Lab:Creatingandusingadeploymentslot 44
4 Introduction to Azure Storage 46
4.1 What’ssospecialaboutstorage? 46
Tablestorage 48 ■ Queuestorage 50 ■ Storage
availabilityandredundancy 51
4.2 VMstorage 52
Standardvs.premiumstorage 52 ■ Temporarydisks
anddatadisks 53 ■ Disk-cachingoptions 54
4.3 AddingdiskstoaVM 54
4.4 Lab:ExploringAzureStorage 56
Developer-focused 56 ■ VM-focused 56
5 Azure Networking basics 57
5.1 Virtualnetworkcomponents 57
Creatingandusingvirtualnetworksandsubnets 58
Virtualnetworkinterfacecards 60 ■ PublicIPaddress
andDNSresolution 62 ■ Securingandcontrollingtraffic
withnetworksecuritygroups 65 ■ Creatinganetworksecurity