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

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Azure for Architects

Azure Design Patterns

In the previous chapter, we got an overview of Azure cloud and explained some of the important concepts related to it. This chapter is about Azure cloud patterns related to virtual networks, storage accounts, regions, and availability sets. These are important constructs that affect the final architecture delivered to customers in terms of cost, efficiencies, and overall productivity. This chapter will also briefly discuss cloud patterns that help in implementing scalability and performance within the overall architecture.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Azure virtual network design
  • Azure storage design
  • Azure zones, regions, and availability sets
  • Azure design patterns related to the following:
    • Messaging
    • Performance
    • Scalability

Azure zones and regions

Azure cloud is backed up by large data centers interconnected into a single large network. The data centers are grouped together based on their physical proximity to Azure regions. For example, a couple of data centers in Western Europe together are available to Azure users as the West Europe region. Users cannot control which data center that is, the exact data center for their deployment. They can inform Azure about the region and Azure will pick an appropriate data center.

Choosing an appropriate region is an important architectural decision as it affects the following:

  • Availability of resources
  • Data and privacy compliance
  • Performance of applications
  • Cost of running applications

Availability of resources

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Virtual network

A virtual network should be thought of as a physical LAN network in your office or home. Conceptually, they both are the same, although the Azure virtual network is implemented as a software-defined network backed up by a giant physical network infrastructure.

A virtual network is required for hosting a virtual machine. They provide a secure communication mechanism between Azure resources to connect to each other. They provide an internal IP address to them, access, and connectivity to other resources including virtual machines on the same virtual network, routing of requests, and connectivity to other networks.

A virtual network is contained within a resource group and is hosted within a region, for example, West Europe. Virtual network cannot span multiple regions, but it can span all data centers with a region. For connectivity across regions, virtual networks...

Storage

Azure provides durable, highly available, and scalable storage solutions through storage services.

Storage is used for persisting data for long-term needs. Azure storage is available through the internet from almost every programming language.

Storage categories

Storage has two categories of storage accounts:

  • A standard storage performance tier that allows you to store tables, queues, files, blobs, and Azure virtual machine disks.
  • A premium storage performance tier supporting Azure virtual machine disks at the time of writing. Premium storage provides higher performance and IOPS compared to standard general storage. Premium storage is currently available as data disks for virtual machines are backed up by SSD&apos...

Design patterns

Design patterns are proven solutions to known design problems. They are reusable solutions that can be applied to problems. They are not reusable codes or designs that can be incorporated as is within a solution. They are documented descriptions and guidance to solve a problem. The problem might manifest itself in a different context and design patterns can help solve them. Azure provides numerous services with each service providing a specific feature and capability. Using these services is straightforward, but creating solutions weaving multiple services can be a challenge. Moreover, achieving high availability, super-scalability, reliability, performance, and security for a solution is not a menial task. Azure design patterns provide ready solutions to these problems and provide solutions that can be tailor-made to individual solutions. They help in making...

Summary

There are numerous services available on Azure and most can be combined to create real solutions. It was difficult to write about design patterns in 20 pages where there are hundreds of services and multiple ways to bring them together. This chapter explained the three most important services from Azure--regions, storage, and networks. They almost form the backbone of every solution deployed on any cloud. This chapter provided details about these services and how their configuration and provisioning can affect design decisions. The important considerations for both storage and networks were detailed in this chapter. Both networks and storage provide lots of choices and it is important to choose an appropriate configuration based on requirement. Finally, some of the important design patterns related to messaging such as competing consumers, priority queues, and load leveling...

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  • ?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

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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.

Who is this book for?

If you are Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers, or developers who want to learn key architectural aspects of the Azure Cloud platform, then this book is for you. Prior basic knowledge of the Azure Cloud platform is good to have.

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
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Getting Started Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Azure Design Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing High Availability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Scalability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Manoj R. Nair Nov 23, 2017
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Azure is an ocean. With so many services to learn, it becomes challenging to find a "structured" path to learn it. There are so many Lego pieces and as an Architect, you need to find the right solution for the customer. What this book offers is a learning path so to speak to understand the core services that Azure has to offer. It doesn't go in depth and down the rabbit hole (the Azure documentation is pretty good if you wish to go in depth) but what I liked most about the book is that it offered guidance on when to use what. For example, when should you use an Azure Service Bus in contrast to Azure Storage Queues. This is something that clearly reflects the experience the Author has and his has clearly articulated those in the book. I carry this book in my back pack and its a must have!Despite your job role, I would recommend this book as the first resource to start learning Azure
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Anthony Bowman Jun 07, 2018
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This is a great book for anyone wanting an overview of azure with some real world scenarios and design patterns.
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Allan Dec 14, 2017
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With Cloud quickly becoming the only option with Platform as a Service being a cost effective way to get solutions up and running and to market quickly. It is therefore imperative to be able to quickly come to terms with the multitude of services that Microsoft offer via Azure.The Microsoft documentation is very good but it is far too easy to spend a vast amount of time in different documents written in different years and not finding the correct way to do something.This book is vital for all Solution Architects that are involved in projects from a strategy perspective and/or hands-on with the Portal. It is well written and easy to read and difficult concepts are explained.Prior to searching the Internet for a new concept that I need to understand, I would refer straight to the book.With new services evolving really quickly, I trust that this book will be updated yearly due to the pace of change, it would be advisable to keep this book as the Number 1.
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aman Mar 29, 2018
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I found this book a must-have reference for Azure Architects. From basics to design patterns the book starts with building right foundation. Then it builds on that with essential architecture topics that you have to work on day to day basis like High Availability, Scalability, Security in Cloud, Monitoring and Auditing etc. The book also covers some advanced topics which are creating the buzz in the industry today like IoT, DevOps etc.as related to Azure. Overall, I highly recommend this book for beginners as well as advanced users.
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