Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - Fourth Edition: The essential handbook to cloud transformation with Azure

Leverage Azure's cloud capabilities to find the most optimized path to meeting your firm's cloud infrastructure needs.

Key Features

• Get to grips with the core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
• Develop the ability to opt for cloud design and architecture that best fits your organization
• Cover the entire spectrum of cloud migration from planning to implementation and best practices

Book Description

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy.

This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management.

The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.

By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.

What you will learn

• Understand core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
• Carry out detailed planning for migrating applications to the cloud with Azure
• Deploy and run Azure infrastructure services
• Define roles and responsibilities in DevOps
• Get a firm grip on Azure security fundamentals
• Carry out cost optimization in Azure

Who this book is for

This book is designed to benefit Azure architects, cloud solution architects, Azure developers, Azure administrators, and anyone who wants to develop expertise in operating and administering the Azure cloud. Basic familiarity with operating systems and databases will help you grasp the concepts covered in this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Automation and governance in Azure
3. Modernizing with hybrid cloud and multicloud
4. Cloud migration: Planning, implementation, and best practices
5. Enabling secure, remote work with Microsoft Azure AD and WVD
6. Security fundamentals to help protect against cybercrime
7. Offers, support, resources, and tips to optimize cost in Azure
8. Conclusion

Jack Lee is a senior Azure certified consultant and an Azure practice lead with a passion for software development, cloud, and DevOps innovations. He is an active Microsoft tech community contributor and has presented at various user groups and conferences, including the Global Azure Bootcamp at Microsoft Canada. Jack is an experienced mentor and judge at hackathons and is also the president of a user group that focuses on Azure, DevOps, and software development. He is the co-author of Azure for Architects and Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure, published by Packt Publishing. He has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the tech community. You can follow Jack on Twitter at jlee_consulting.

Greg Leonardo is currently a cloud architect, helping organizations with cloud adoption and innovation. He has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military. He is a veteran, architect, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Currently, he is a Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, and has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career. He is President of TampaDev, a community meetup that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events throughout Tampa.

Greg has also authored the book Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure and the previous two editions of Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide for Microsoft by Packt Publishing.

Jason Milgram is a chief architect at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) headquartered in Reston, VA. Previously he was the first VP Cloud Solution Architect at City National Bank of Florida in Miami, and before that he was VP of Platform Architecture and Engineering at Champion Solutions Group in Boca Raton, Florida. Jason was educated at the University of Cincinnati and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management. He was also a Sergeant in the US Army Reserve, serving from 1990 to 1998. A Microsoft Azure MVP (2010-present), Jason has given over 100 Azure presentations and regularly writes articles on Azure topics.

Dave Rendón has been a Microsoft MVP for 7 consecutive years with expertise in Azure, currently working as a solutions architect for the US and LATAM regions at Kemp, a provider of application delivery software and security.

He regularly presents at public IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure events, and local user group events across the US, Europe, and Latin America, and is active on Twitter as daverndn.

Dave has had a strong focus on Microsoft technologies and Azure since 2010. He helps people develop in-demand skills to advance their career through the cloud and AI and provides support to Microsoft partners worldwide on technical guidance and provides Azure training classes globally (India, South America, and the US) that help companies migrate critical applications to the cloud and train their staff to be certified cloud architects.

You can reach Dave as /daverndn on LinkedIn and Twitter, and as /wikiazure on YouTube.