Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches Second Edition

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.SummaryYou 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.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the technologyMicrosoft Azure is vast and powerful, offering virtual servers, application templates, and prebuilt services for everything from data storage to AI. To navigate it all, you need a trustworthy guide. In this book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on core skills for creating cloud-based applications.About the bookLearn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.What’s insideUnderstanding Azure beyond point-and-clickSecuring applications and dataAutomating your environmentAzure services for machine learning, containers, and moreAbout the readerThis book is for readers who can write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.About the authorIain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft.Table of ContentsPART 1 – AZURE CORE SERVICES1 Before you begin2 Creating a virtual machine3 Azure Web Apps4 Introduction to Azure Storage5 Azure Networking basicsPART 2 – HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE6 Azure Resource Manager7 High availability and redundancy8 Load-balancing applications9 Applications that scale10 Global databases with Cosmos DB11 Managing network traffic and routing12 Monitoring and troubleshootingPART 3 – SECURE BY DEFAULT13 Backup, recovery, and replication14 Data encryption15 Securing information with Azure Key Vault16 Azure Security Center and updatesPART 4 – THE COOL STUFF17 Machine learning and artificial intelligence18 Azure Automation19 Azure containers20 Azure and the Internet of Things21 Serverless computing