Microsoft Azure

How do you deal with the problems you face when using Azure? This practical guide provides over 75 recipes to help you to work with common Azure issues in everyday scenarios. That includes key tasks like setting up permissions for a storage account, working with Cosmos DB APIs, managing Azure role-based access control, governing your Azure subscriptions using Azure Policy, and much more.

Author Reza Salehi has assembled real-world recipes that enable you to grasp key Azure services and concepts quickly. Each recipe includes CLI scripts that you can execute in your own Azure account. Recipes also explain the approach and provide meaningful context. The solutions in this cookbook will take you beyond theory and help you understand Azure services in practice.

You'll find recipes that let you:

• Store data in an Azure storage account or in a data lake
• Work with relational and nonrelational databases in Azure
• Manage role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure resources
• Safeguard secrets in Azure Key Vault
• Govern your Azure subscription using Azure Policy
• Use CLI code to construct your application or fix a particular problem

Azure Databricks is a unified collaborative platform for performing scalable analytics in an interactive environment. The Azure Databricks Cookbook provides recipes to get hands-on with the analytics process, including ingesting data from various batch and streaming sources and building a modern data warehouse.

The book starts by teaching you how to create an Azure Databricks instance within the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. You’ll work through clusters in Databricks and explore recipes for ingesting data from sources, including files, databases, and streaming sources such as Apache Kafka and EventHub. The book will help you explore all the features supported by Azure Databricks for building powerful end-to-end data pipelines. You'll also find out how to build a modern data warehouse by using Delta tables and Azure Synapse Analytics. Later, you’ll learn how to write ad hoc queries and extract meaningful insights from the data lake by creating visualizations and dashboards with Databricks SQL. Finally, you'll deploy and productionize a data pipeline as well as deploy notebooks and Azure Databricks service using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to use Azure Databricks to streamline different processes involved in building data-driven apps.

What you will learn

• Read and write data from and to various Azure resources and file formats
• Build a modern data warehouse with Delta Tables and Azure Synapse Analytics
• Explore jobs, stages, and tasks and see how Spark lazy evaluation works
• Handle concurrent transactions and learn performance optimization in Delta tables
• Learn Databricks SQL and create real-time dashboards in Databricks SQL
• Integrate Azure DevOps for version control, deploying, and productionizing solutions with CI/CD pipelines
• Discover how to use RBAC and ACLs to restrict data access
• Build end-to-end data processing pipeline for near real-time data analytics

Who this book is for

This recipe-based book is for data scientists, data engineers, big data professionals, and machine learning engineers who want to perform data analytics on their applications. Prior experience of working with Apache Spark and Azure is necessary to get the most out of this book.

Master ARM templates, Bicep, and other Azure Infrastructure-as-Code tools, techniques, and practices to build infrastructure on the Azure cloud.

In Azure Infrastructure as Code you will learn how to:

• Create reusable infrastructure templates using advanced features of the ARM (Azure Resource Manager) syntax
• Write templates with the Azure Bicep domain-specific language (DSL)
• Test ARM and Bicep templates
• Deploy templates using deployment pipelines
• Guarantee repeated outcomes when you reuse templates to replicate infrastructure
• Share templates between teams
• Provision templates to provide standards and Azure Policy to enforce them
• Orchestrate complex deployments using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
• Pre-provision environments for other teams with deployment stacks

Azure Infrastructure as Code teaches you to use Azure’s native infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, like ARM and Bicep, to build, manage, and scale infrastructure with just a few lines of code. You’ll discover ARM templates, deployment stacks, and the powerful new language Bicep. See how easy they make it to create new environments, safely make infrastructure changes, govern your resources using Azure Policy, and prevent configuration drift. Loaded with in-depth coverage of syntax and lots of illustrative examples, this hands-on guide is a must-read for anyone looking to expand their knowledge of provisioning.

Secure your Azure applications the right way. The expert DevSecOps techniques you'll learn in this essential handbook make it easy to keep your data safe.

As a Program Manager at Microsoft, Bojan Magusic has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies improve their security posture in Azure. Now, in

Azure Security he brings his experience from the cyber security frontline to ensure your Azure cloud-based systems are safe and secure.

In Azure Security you’ll learn vital security skills, including how to:

• Set up secure access through Conditional Access policiesImplement Azure WAF on Application Gateway and Front Door
• Deploy Azure Firewall Premium for monitoring network activities
• Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess workload configurations
• Utilize Microsoft Sentinel for threat detection and analytics
• Establish Azure Policy for compliance with business rules

Correctly set up out-of-the-box Azure services to protect your web apps against both common and sophisticated threats, learn to continuously assess your systems for vulnerabilities, and discover cutting-edge operations for security hygiene, monitoring, and DevSecOps. Each stage is made clear and easy to follow with step-by-step instructions, complemented by helpful screenshots and diagrams.

The Microsoft Azure cloud is an ideal platform for data-intensive applications. Designed for productivity, Azure provides pre-built services that make collection, storage, and analysis much easier to implement and manage.

Azure Storage, Streaming, and Batch Analytics teaches you how to design a reliable, performant, and cost-effective data infrastructure in Azure by progressively building a complete working analytics system.

Build a data platform to the industry-leading standards set by Microsoft’s own infrastructure.

In Data Engineering on Azure you will learn how to:

• Pick the right Azure services for different data scenarios
• Manage data inventory
• Implement production quality data modeling, analytics, and machine learning workloads
• Handle data governance
• Using DevOps to increase reliability
• Ingesting, storing, and distributing data
• Apply best practices for compliance and access control

Data Engineering on Azure reveals the data management patterns and techniques that support Microsoft’s own massive data infrastructure. Author Vlad Riscutia, a data engineer at Microsoft, teaches you to bring an engineering rigor to your data platform and ensure that your data prototypes function just as well under the pressures of production. You'll implement common data modeling patterns, stand up cloud-native data platforms on Azure, and get to grips with DevOps for both analytics and machine learning.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-104 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of implementing and deploying Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Designed for experienced cloud professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Associate level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Manage Azure identities and governance
• Implement and manage storage
• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
• Configure and manage virtual networking
• Monitor and back up Azure resources

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Assumes you are an experienced Azure administrator who understands and manages diverse storage, security, networking and/or compute cloud services

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are ubiquitous concepts in modern development. Azure Pipelines is one of the most popular services that you can utilize for CI/CD, and this book shows you how it works by taking you through the process of building and automating CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines and YAML, simplifying integration with Azure resources and reducing human error.

You’ll begin by getting an overview of Azure Pipelines and why you should use it. Next, the book helps you get to grips with build and release pipelines, and then builds upon this by introducing the extensive power of YAML syntax, which you can use to implement and configure any task you can think of. As you advance, you’ll discover how to integrate Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, and perform code analysis with SonarQube. In the concluding chapters, you’ll delve into real-life scenarios and hands-on implementation tasks with Microsoft Azure services, AWS, and cross-mobile application with Flutter, Google Firebase, and more.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and build CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines with consummate ease, write code using YAML, and configure any task that comes to mind.

What you will learn

• Create multiple jobs, stages, and tasks on the Azure DevOps portal
• Use YAML syntax for Node.js, .NET, Docker, and SQL Server tasks
• Automate microservice applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters
• Deploy Docker applications on AWS container services
• Use SonarQube and Jenkins for security and artifacts
• Implement CI/CD on Flutter-based mobile applications
• Utilize Azure Key Vault secrets in Azure Pipelines
• Build a Node.js application in Azure Container Instances

Who this book is for

This book is for DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs, application developers, and sysadmins looking to manage CI/CD using Azure Pipelines with the help of real-world use cases. A clear understanding of cloud computing services on Azure and AWS, DevOps, and CI/CD concepts, along with knowledge of building and deploying web and mobile applications automatically on cloud is assumed.

You can be incredibly productive with Azure without mastering every feature, function, and service.

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition gets you up and running quickly, teaching you the most important concepts and tasks in 21 practical bite-sized lessons. As you explore the examples, exercises, and labs, you'll pick up valuable skills immediately and take your first steps to Azure mastery! This fully revised new edition covers core changes to the Azure UI, new Azure features, Azure containers, and the upgraded Azure Kubernetes Service.

If your organization plans to modernize services and move to the cloud from legacy software or a private cloud on premises, this book is for you. Software developers, solution architects, cloud engineers, and anybody interested in cloud technologies will learn fundamental concepts for cloud computing, migration, transformation, and development using Microsoft Azure.

Author and Microsoft MVP Jonah Carrio Andersson guides you through cloud computing concepts and deployment models, the wide range of modern cloud technologies, application development with Azure, team collaboration services, security services, and cloud migration options in Microsoft Azure.

You'll gain insight into the Microsoft Azure cloud services that you can apply in different business use cases, software development projects, and modern solutions in the cloud. You'll also become fluent with Azure cloud migration services, serverless computing technologies that help your development team work productively, Azure IoT, and Azure cognitive services that make your application smarter. This book also provides real-world advice and best practices based on the author's own Azure migration experience.

• Gain insight into which Azure cloud service best suits your company's particular needs
• Understand how to use Azure for different use cases and specific technical requirements
• Start developing cloud services, applications, and solutions in the Azure environment
• Learn how to migrate existing legacy applications to Microsoft Azure

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-900 Demonstrate your real-world knowledge of cloud services and how they can be provided with Microsoft Azure, including high-level concepts that apply throughout Azure, and key concepts specific to individual services. Designed for professionals in non-technical or technical roles, the Exam Ref series focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Fundamentals level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Describe cloud concepts
• Describe core Azure services
• Describe core solutions and management tools on Azure
• Describe general security and network security features
• Describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features
• Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements