| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| About this book |
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| About the author |
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Part 1 Azure core services |
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1.1 Is this book for you? |
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Source code and supplementary materials |
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1.3 Creating your lab environment |
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Creating a free Azure account |
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Bonus lab exercise: Creating a free GitHub account |
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1.4 A little helping hand |
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1.5 Understanding the Azure platform |
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2 Creating a virtual machine |
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2.1 Virtual machine configuration basics |
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Regions and availability options |
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2.2 Creating an SSH key pair for authentication |
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2.3 Creating a VM from your web browser |
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2.4 Connecting to the VM and installing the web server |
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Connecting to the VM with SSH |
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Installing the web server |
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2.5 Allowing web traffic to reach the VM |
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Creating a rule to allow web traffic |
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Viewing the web server in action |
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2.6 Lab: Creating a Windows VM |
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2.7 Cleaning up resources |
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2.8 Houston, we have a problem |
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3.1 Azure Web Apps overview and concepts |
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Supported languages and environments |
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Staging different versions with deployment slots |
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Deploying a sample HTML site |
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3.3 Viewing diagnostic logs |
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3.4 Lab: Creating and using a deployment slot |
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4 Introduction to Azure Storage |
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Temporary disks and data disks |
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Storage availability and redundancy |
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4.4 Lab: Exploring Azure Storage |
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5 Azure Networking basics |
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5.1 Virtual network components |
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Virtual networks and subnets |
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Virtual network interface cards |
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Public IP address and DNS resolution |
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5.2 Securing and controlling traffic with network security groups |
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Creating a network security group |
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Associating a network security group with a subnet |
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Creating network security group filtering rules |
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5.3 Building a sample web application with secure traffic |
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Creating remote access network connections |
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Using the SSH agent to connect to your VMs |
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5.4 Lab: Installing and testing the LAMP web server |
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Part 2 High availability and scale |
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6.1 The Azure Resource Manager approach |
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Designing around the application lifecycle |
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Securing and controlling resources |
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Protecting resources with locks |
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Managing and grouping resources with tags |
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6.2 Azure Resource Manager templates |
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Creating and using templates |
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Creating multiples of a resource type |
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Tools to build your own templates |
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Storing and using templates |
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6.3 Lab: Deploying Azure resources from a template |
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7 High availability and redundancy |
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7.1 The need for redundancy |
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7.2 Infrastructure redundancy with Availability Zones |
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Creating network resources across an Availability Zone |
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Creating VMs in an Availability Zone |
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7.3 VM redundancy with Availability Sets |
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Distributing VMs across an Availability Set |
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View distribution of VMs across an Availability Set |
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7.4 Lab: Deploying highly available VMs from a template |
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8 Load-balancing applications |
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8.1 Azure load-balancer components |
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Creating a frontend IP pool |
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Creating and configuring health probes |
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Defining traffic distribution with load-balancer rules |
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Routing direct traffic with Network Address Translation rules |
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Assigning groups of VMs to backend pools |
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8.2 Creating and configuring VMs with the load balancer |
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8.3 Lab: Viewing templates of existing deployments |
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9 Applications that scale |
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9.1 Why build scalable, reliable applications? |
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Scaling web apps vertically |
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Scaling resources horizontally |
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9.2 Virtual machine scale sets |
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Creating a virtual machine scale set |
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9.4 Lab: Installing applications on your scale set or web app |
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Virtual machine scale sets |
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10 Global databases with Cosmos DB |
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Structured (SQL) databases |
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Unstructured (NoSQL) databases |
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Bringing it all together with Cosmos DB |
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10.2 Creating a Cosmos DB account and database |
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Creating and populating a Cosmos DB database |
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Adding global redundancy to a Cosmos DB database |
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10.3 Accessing globally distributed data |
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10.4 Lab: Deploying a web app that uses Cosmos DB |
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11 Managing network traffic and routing |
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11.2 Delegating a real domain to Azure DNS |
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11.3 Global routing and resolution with Traffic Manager |
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Creating Traffic Manager profiles |
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Globally distributing traffic to the closest instance |
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11.4 Lab: Deploying web apps to see Traffic Manager in action |
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12 Monitoring and troubleshooting |
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12.2 Performance metrics and alerts |
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Viewing performance metrics with the VM diagnostics extension |
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Creating alerts for performance conditions |
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12.3 Azure Network Watcher |
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Viewing effective NSG rules |
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Capturing network packets |
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12.4 Lab: Creating performance alerts |
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13 Backup, recovery, and replication |
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13.3 Lab: Configuring a VM for Site Recovery |
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14.1 What is data encryption? |
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14.3 Storage Service Encryption |
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Storing encryption keys in Azure Key Vault |
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14.5 Lab: Encrypting a VM |
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15 Securing information with Azure Key Vault |
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15.1 Securing information in the cloud |
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Software vaults and hardware security modules |
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Creating a key vault and secret |
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15.2 Managed identities for Azure resources |
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15.3 Obtaining a secret from within a VM with managed identity |
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15.4 Creating and injecting certificates |
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15.5 Lab: Configuring a secure web server |
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16 Azure Security Center and updates |
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16.1 Azure Security Center |
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16.3 Azure Update Management |
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Combined Azure management services |
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Reviewing and applying updates |
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16.4 Lab: Enabling JIT and updates for a Windows VM |
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17 Machine learning and artificial intelligence |
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17.1 Overview and relationship of AI and ML |
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Bringing AI and ML together |
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Azure ML tools for data scientists |
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17.2 Azure Cognitive Services |
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17.3 Building an intelligent bot to help with pizza orders |
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Creating an Azure web app bot |
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Language and understanding intent with LUIS |
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Building and running a web app bot with LUIS |
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17.4 Lab: Adding channels for bot communication |
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18.1 What is Azure Automation? |
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Creating an Azure Automation account |
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Azure Automation assets and runbooks |
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18.2 Azure Automation sample runbook |
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Running and viewing output from a sample runbook |
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18.3 PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) |
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Defining and using PowerShell DSC and an Azure Automation pull server |
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18.4 Lab: Using DSC with Linux |
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19.1 What are containers? |
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19.2 The microservices approach to applications |
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19.3 Azure Container Instances |
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19.4 Azure Kubernetes Service |
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Creating a cluster with Azure Kubernetes Services |
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Running a basic website in Kubernetes |
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19.5 Lab: Scaling your Kubernetes deployments |
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20 Azure and the Internet of Things |
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20.1 What is the Internet of Things? |
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20.2 Centrally managing devices with Azure IoT Hub |
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20.3 Creating a simulated Raspberry Pi device |
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20.4 Streaming Azure IoT hub data into Azure web apps |
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20.5 Azure IoT component review |
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20.6 Lab: Exploring use cases for IoT |
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21.1 What is serverless computing? |
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21.2 Azure messaging platforms |
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Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus |
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Creating a service bus and integrating it with an IoT hub |
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21.3 Creating an Azure logic app |
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21.4 Creating an Azure function app to analyze IoT device data |
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Additional learning materials |
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