Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches

Summary

You don’t need to learn everything about Azure to do some incredible stuff. Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches gets you started by breaking down the most important concepts and tasks into 21 bite-sized lessons, complete with examples, exercises, and labs. You’ll be productive immediately, and when you finish you’ll be well on the way to Azure mastery!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

With hundreds of features and prebuilt services, the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is vast and powerful. To master it, you need a trustworthy guide. In this hands-on book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on the core skills you need to create and maintain cloud-based applications.

About the Book

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches teaches you the foundational techniques for writing, deploying, and running cloud-based applications in Azure. In it, you’ll master the basics, including setting up cloud-based virtual machines, deploying web servers, and using hosted data stores. As you work through the book’s 21 carefully planned lessons, you’ll explore big-picture concerns like security, scaling, and automation.You’ll even dabble in Azure’s prebuilt services for machine containers, and serverless computing!

What’s Inside

• Getting started, from your first login
• Writing and deploying web servers
• Securing your applications and data
• Automating your environment
• Azure services for machine learning, serverless computing, and more

About the Reader

Readers should be able to write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.

About the Author

Iain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft. .

Table of Contents

PART 1 – AZURE CORE SERVICES
Chapter 1 Before You Begin
Chapter 2 Creating A Virtual Machine
Chapter 3 Azure Web Apps
Chapter 4 Introduction To Azure Storage
Chapter 5 Azure Networking Basics

PART 2 – HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE
Chapter 1 Azure Resource Manager
Chapter 2 High Availability And Redundancy
Chapter 3 Load-Balancing Applications
Chapter 4 Applications That Scale
Chapter 5 Global Databases With Cosmos Db
Chapter 6 Managing Network Traffic And Routing
Chapter 7 Monitoring And Troubleshooting

PART 3 – SECURE BY DEFAULT
Chapter 1 Backup, Recovery, And Replication
Chapter 2 Data Encryption
Chapter 3 Securing Information With Azure Key Vault
Chapter 4 Azure Security Center And Updates

PART 4 – THE COOL STUFF
Chapter 1 Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 2 Azure Automation
Chapter 3 Azure Containers
Chapter 4 Azure And The Internet Of Things
Chapter 5 Serverless Computing