Introduction to Microsoft Azure Services

What is Azure

• It is one of the largest cloud computing platforms, serving millions of applications, intergrations and customers

Azure Overview

Compute; Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• An azure VM gives you the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs it

• "Lift and Shift" - Computers that you want to migrate to this services

  • It is great for that

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

• An application services are a pool of services that azure provides, such as load balancing, application performance monitoring, application acceleration, autoscaling, micro segmentation and more

  • Can offer the following:

    • Web Apps

    • APIs

    • Mobile Backends

    • Docker and Containers

    • Serverless

Container; Azure Container Instance

• A services that enables a developer to deploy a containers

• It is serverless into a container that is deployed in the cloud

• Like a virtual machine, but they do not have the operating systems they only contain the application

Kubernetes; Azure Kubernetes

• For more complex applications that has multiple containers you can use Azure Kubernetes

• This is know as a container orgastrator, it makes easy to deploy and amange multi container applications

• More than one container is known as kubernetes

Functions; Azure Functions

• It is a procedure that runs only a particular service rather than an entire application

• It runs part of an application not the entire application

Storage

Storage; Blob Storage; Azure Blob Storage

• A simple form of storage is referred to as Blob

• It does not really have a structure like standard file storage services

• everything is combined into a single blob

• It has multiple access tiers

File Storage; Azure File Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage

1. Azure File Storage: Uses protocol SMB

2. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

   1. Is used for analytics

Databases

Databases; Azure Databases; Relational Databases

• These are SQL databases

• It is the Azure SQL databases

• It is similar to Microsoft SQL although it is not 100% compatible

Synapse Analytics; Azure Synapse Analytics

• Used to build a data warehouse

• It is used for large database

• In order for an open source database to scale out, something has to be sacrified, it does use all the feature of the SQL databases

Cosmos DB

1. Basically a quicker version of NoSQL build by Microsoft Azure

Networking

Networking; Azure VNet

1. A virtual network when you setup a Azure Virtual Machine

Azure Subnets

1. You can divide a Vnet into separate subnets

Azure Subnets; Inbound and Outbound Traffic

• By default all outbound traffic from a VM is allowed internet access

• For inbound traffic into the VM you need to assign a Public IP address to the VM

Azure Peering; VNet Peering

1. If you have two VNets, you need to used Azure Peering for the two vnet to communicate with each other

Azure VPN

Azure ExpressRoute

Azure Other service; AI, DevOps

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