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The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

You're reading from The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562325

Pages 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (2):

Stéphane Eyskens

Ed Price

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Solution and Infrastructure

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started as an Azure Architect

3. Chapter 2: Solution Architecture

4. Chapter 3: Infrastructure Design

5. Chapter 4: Infrastructure Deployment

6. Section 2: Application Development, Data, and Security

7. Chapter 5: Application Architecture

8. Chapter 6: Data Architecture

9. Chapter 7: Security Architecture

10. Section 3: Summary

11. Chapter 8: Summary and Industry Scenarios

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we briefly explained what the benefits are of a CI/CD pipeline and of DevOps tooling in general. We also highlighted how challenging it can be to have a fully functioning factory.

We made it clear that there is only one ruler in Azure's IaC world: the ARM endpoint. All the imperative and declarative tools and languages ultimately talk to the ARM endpoint. We shed some light on Terraform, native ARM templates, and Azure Bicep, ARM's next-generation language. Beyond imperative tools and declarative languages, we explored how to set the different elements to music with Azure DevOps. Concepts explained for Azure DevOps also apply to other platforms. By now, you should have understood that a fully functioning factory leveraging IaC is a vital element for building and provisioning cloud solutions. You should have gained sufficient knowledge to get started with your own factory, or to accompany DevOps teams on their CI/CD journey.

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Authors (2)

Stéphane Eyskens

Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.

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Ed Price

Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.

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