FUNDAMENTALS OF AZURE
CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT AZURE 1 CHAPTER 2 AZURE APP SERVICE AND WEB APPS 62 CHAPTER 3 AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINES 121 CHAPTER 4 AZURE STORAGE 192 CHAPTER 5 AZURE VIRTUAL NETWORKS 268 CHAPTER 6 DATABASES 321 CHAPTER 7 AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY 370 CHAPTER 8 MANAGEMENT TOOLS 421 CHAPTER 9 ADDITIONAL AZURE SERVICES 467 CHAPTER 10 BUSINESS CASES 489 CONTENTS C H A P T E R 1 GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT AZURE C H A P T E R 1 GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT AZURE THE PURPOSE OF THIS EBOOK IS TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROSOFT AZURE SO YOU CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING WHEN YOU START USING IT WITH AN AZURE ACCOUNT YOU CAN WORK THROUGH THE DEMOS IN THIS BOOK AND USE THEM AS HANDS ON LABS IF YOU DON T HAVE AN AZURE ACCOUNT YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL AT AZURE MICROSOFT COM IF YOU HAVE AN MSDN SUBSCRIPTION YOU 1 C H A P T E R 1 GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT AZURE CAN ACTIVATE THE INCLUDED AZURE BENEFITS AND USE THE ASSOCIATED MONTHLY CREDIT YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT PURCHASE OPTIONS AT HTTPS AZURE MICROSOFT COM PRICING PURCHASE OPTIONS AND MEMBER OFFERS AT HTTPS AZURE MICROSOFT COM PRICING MEMBER OFFERS FOR MEMBERS OF MSDN THE MICROSOFT PARTNER NETWORK BIZSPARK AND OTHER MICROSOFT PROGRAMS WHAT IS AZURE THE FOLLOWING WILL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF AZURE WHICH IS MICROSOFT S CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM 2 C H A P T E R 1 GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT AZURE OVERVIEW OF CLOUD COMPUTING CLOUD COMPUTING PROVIDES A MODERN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL ON PREMISES DATACENTER A PUBLIC CLOUD VENDOR IS COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR HARDWARE PURCHASE AND MAINTENANCE AND PROVIDES A WIDE VARIETY OF PLATFORM SERVICES THAT YOU CAN USE YOU LEASE WHATEVER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SERVICES YOU REQUIRE ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS THEREBY CONVERTING WHAT HAD BEEN A CAPITAL EXPENSE FOR HARDWARE PURCHASE INTO AN OPERATIONAL EXPENSE IT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO LEASE ACCESS TO HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES THAT WOULD BE TOO EXPENSIVE TO PURCHASE ALTHOUGH YOU ARE LIMITED TO THE HARDWARE PROVIDED BY THE CLOUD VENDOR YOU ONLY HAVE TO PAY FOR IT WHEN YOU USE IT CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS PROVIDE AN ONLINE PORTAL EXPERIENCE MAKING IT EASY FOR USERS TO MANAGE COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK AND APPLICATION RESOURCES FOR EXAMPLE IN THE AZURE PORTAL A USER CAN CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE VM CONFIGURATION SPECIFYING THE FOLLOWING THE VM SIZE WITH REGARD TO CPU RAM AND LOCAL DISKS THE OPERATING SYSTEM ANY PREDEPLOYED SOFTWARE THE NETWORK CONFIGURATION AND THE LOCATION OF THE VM THE USER THEN CAN DEPLOY THE VM BASED ON THAT CONFIGURATION AND WITHIN A FEW MINUTES ACCESS THE DEPLOYED VM THIS QUICK DEPLOYMENT 3