Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches

<b>Summary</b><br><br>You don't need to learn everything about Azure to do some incredible stuff. <i>Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches</i> gets you started by breaking down the most important concepts and tasks into 21 bite-sized lessons, complete with examples, exercises, and labs. You'll be productive immediately, and when you finish you'll be well on the way to Azure mastery! <br><br>Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.<br><br><b>About the Technology</b><br><br>With hundreds of features and prebuilt services, the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is vast and powerful. To master it, you need a trustworthy guide. In this hands-on book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on the core skills you need to create and maintain cloud-based applications. <br><br><b>About the Book</b><br><br><i>Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches</i> teaches you the foundational techniques for writing, deploying, and running cloud-based applications in Azure. In it, you'll master the basics, including setting up cloud-based virtual machines, deploying web servers, and using hosted data stores. As you work through the book's 21 carefully planned lessons, you'll explore big-picture concerns like security, scaling, and automation.You'll even dabble in Azure's prebuilt services for machine containers, and serverless computing! <br><br><b>What's Inside</b><br><br><ul><li>Getting started, from your first login</li><li>Writing and deploying web servers</li><li>Securing your applications and data</li><li>Automating your environment </li><li>Azure services for machine learning, serverless computing, and more </li></ul><br><b>About the Reader</b><br><br>Readers should be able to write and deploy simple web or client/server applications. <br><br><b>About the Author</b><br><br><b>Iain Foulds</b> is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft. .<br><br><b>Table of Contents</b><br><br><ul>PART 1 - AZURE CORE SERVICES<li>Before you begin</li><li>Creating a virtual machine</li><li>Azure Web Apps</li><li>Introduction to Azure Storage</li><li>Azure Networking basics</li>PART 2 - HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE<li>Azure Resource Manager</li><li>High availability and redundancy</li><li>Load-balancing applications</li><li>Applications that scale</li><li>Global databases with Cosmos DB</li><li>Managing network traffic and routing</li><li> Monitoring and troubleshooting</li>PART 3 - SECURE BY DEFAULT<li>Backup, recovery, and replication</li><li>Data encryption</li><li>Securing information with Azure Key Vault</li><li>Azure Security Center and updates</li>PART 4 - THE COOL STUFF<li>Machine learning and artificial intelligence</li><li>Azure Automation</li><li>Azure containers</li><li>Azure and the Internet of Things</li><li>Serverless computing</li></ul>