Timothy L Warner - Microsoft Azure for Dummies

Microsoft Azure For Dummies

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020931520

ISBN: 978-1-119-61214-8(pbk); 978-1-119-61218-6 (ebk); 978-1-119-61215-5 (ebk)

1. Chapter 3
2. Chapter 4
3. Chapter 5
4. Chapter 9
5. Chapter 11
6. Chapter 12
7. Chapter 13

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud service in which you rent compute services from Microsoft that run in Microsofts data centers. You pay only for the resources you use over the course of your billing period.

I wrote this book to give you a gentle yet thorough introduction to Microsoft Azure, showing you how it works and why you may want to use it to save your company money, time, effort, and sanity.

You may wonder why you dont find a large number of Azurerelated books in your local bookstores or at online retailers. The answer is quite simple: Azure changes often, so print publishers have a great deal of difficulty keeping up.

Ive worked with Azure for several years and have regular contact with Azure team members at Microsoft, who find it to be just as time- and effort-intensive to stay current with the technologies as users do.

Thus, I wrote this book with the intention of helping you with the following:

• Becoming comfortable with Microsoft Azure: I give you this comfort by sticking to what Microsoft calls the 80 percent scenarios, or Azure deployments used by 80 percent of its customer base.
• Gaining skill with programmatic deployment: Along the way, I show you how to use Azure PowerShell, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI), and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to get your Azure work done. These Azure access methods change less frequently than the Azure portal graphical user interface (GUI).
• Becoming comfortable with tools and staying current: You can expect the Azure portal to change such that what you see on your screen may not match whats in this book. Thats to be expected! In the last section of the book, The Part of Tens, I give you the skills to stay current on your own and not to feel blindsided when Azure looks different today from how it looked yesterday.

I include many web addresses, also called URLs, throughout this book. If Microsoft changes a page address, and the link I provide no longer works, dont fret! Simply run a Google search for the article title, and youll find the updated page address nearly instantly.

Throughout this book, youll find dozens of step-by-step procedures. I want you to keep the following points in mind as you work through them:

• You need an Azure subscription to follow the steps. If you havent already done so, you can create a free Azure account ( https://azure.microsoft.com/free ) that gives you 30 days to spend $200 USD on any Azure service. This quota should get you through this books material so long as you delete your deployments when you finish using them.
• I often provide sample values that work in my environment but may not work in yours. You should customize these procedures to suit your requirements.
• If you require additional software to complete an exercise, I tell you at before the exercise. Software requirements are limited to free Microsoft software to minimize the financial impact that working through this book has on you.

I assume that you have an Internet connection; otherwise, youd be unable to access Azure (unless youre using Azure Stack, but thats a subject for another book).

Finally, most of the Azure administration and development tools are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. (I used a Windows 10 workstation.)