Proven best practices for success with every Azure compute service!
Compute services are key to most Azure cloud solutions, but maximizing
their value requires best-practice planning, design, deployment, and
operations. Now, leading consultant Avinash Valiramani presents expert
guidance for driving maximum value from Microsoft's portfolio of Azure
compute services for IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS. Drawing on his extensive work
with Microsoft's Azure teams, he covers Azure VMs, VM Scale Sets, App
Services, Azure Virtual Desktops, Azure Container Instances, Azure
Functions, Azure Batch, and other Compute services. Whatever your role
in delivering efficient, scalable compute services, this deep dive will
help you make the most of your Azure investment.
Leading Azure consultant Avinash Valiramani shows how to:
- Dive deeply into the frequently used Azure Compute services to better
understand how each service works
- Walk through configuring each compute service and its related features
and options
- Size, price, and create Azure VMs, and deliver the right levels of
redundancy and availability
- Use VM Scale Sets (VMSS) to integrate VMs with load balancing and
autoscaling
- Host web applications, mobile app back ends, and REST APIs via Azure
App Service
- Run desktops-as-a-service at scale with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Easily deploy containers on demand with Azure Container Instances
(ACIs)
- Use serverless Azure Functions to build web APIs, process streams, and
manage message queues
About this Book
- For everyone interested in Azure infrastructure, including IT/cloud
admins, security specialists, developers, engineers, and others at all
levels of Azure compute experience.
- Especially useful for experienced IT pros in mid-sized to large
organizations who have deployed, operated, monitored, upgraded,
migrated, or designed infrastructure services.
