Namit Tanasseri

Rahul Rai

Markus Klein

Oliver Michalski

Florian Klaffenbach

Mohamed Wali

Explore powerful Azure DevOps solutions to develop and deploy your software faster and more efficiently.

Key Features • Build modern microservice-based systems with Azure architecture

• Learn to deploy and manage cloud services and virtual machines

• Configure clusters with Azure Service Fabric for deployment

Book Description

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali

• Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein

• Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai

What you will learn • Study various Azure Service Fabric application programming models

• Create and manage a Kubernetes cluster in Azure Kubernetes Service

• Use site-to-site VPN and ExpressRoute connections in your environment

• Design an Azure IoT app and learn to operate it in various scenarios

• Implement a hybrid Azure design using Azure Stack

• Build Azure SQL databases with Code First Migrations

• Integrate client applications with Web API and SignalR on Azure

• Implement the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) across the entire system

Who this book is for

If you are an IT system architect, network admin, or a DevOps engineer who wants to implement Azure solutions for your organization, this Learning Path is for you. Basic knowledge of the Azure Cloud platform will be beneficial.

Florian Klaffenbach is working as a technology solutions professional at Microsoft. He is a well-known expert in hybrid cloud scenarios, cloud connectivity, and cloud environment optimization. Before he started working with Microsoft, he worked in several companies in different roles, such as the technical community manager and solution expert at Dell, and solutions architect at CGI Germany. Oliver Michalski started his IT career as a web developer in 1999. Currently, he is a senior software engineer for Microsoft . NET and is an SOA architect. He also works as an independent enterprise consultant in the field of Microsoft Azure. When he started in 2011 with Microsoft Azure, there was no Azure community in the German market. Therefore, Oliver founded the Azure community Germany (ACD). Oliver is chairman of ACD, and he has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure. Markus Klein works as a technology solution specialist at Microsoft Germany, and specialize in Azure and Hybrid Azure scenarios. He is passionate about the Microsoft technology for more than 20 years, starting with System Center, Service Provider Foundation, KATAL, Azure Pack, Azure, and Azure Stack. Before joining Microsoft, he worked as an architect at Microsoft Cloud Partners. In 2007, he founded a cloud community and was the co-founder of some Azure meetups. Before he joined Microsoft, he was recognized as an MVP in cloud and datacenter management for seven years. He supports the community and is a regular blogger and speaker at conferences in Europe and abroad. Mohamed Wali is a cloud DevOps engineer based in Amsterdam who has been working with Microsoft technologies for around seven years. He has been working with Azure since 2013. In July 2014, Mohamed became recognized as the youngest Microsoft MVP in the world. He has already authored and co-authored multiple books about Microsoft Azure. He shares his knowledge and expertise through blogging, authoring books, and speaking at events. Namit Tanasseri is a certified Microsoft cloud solutions architect with an experience of more than 11 years. He started his career as a software development engineer with Microsoft Research and Development Center in 2005. During the first five years of his career, he had opportunities to work with major Microsoft product groups, such as Microsoft Office and Windows. During this time, he strengthened his knowledge of agile software development methodologies and processes. He also earned a patent during this tenure. As a technology consultant with Microsoft, Namit worked with Microsoft Azure Services for four years. Namit is a subject matter expert in Microsoft Azure and actively contributes to the Microsoft cloud community, while delivering top quality solutions for Microsoft customers. Namit also led the Windows Azure community in Microsoft Services India. Namit currently serves as a Microsoft cloud solutions architect from Sydney, Australia, and works on large and medium-sized enterprise engagements. Rahul Rai is a technology consultant based in Sydney, Australia with over nine years of professional experience. He has been at the forefront of cloud consulting for government organizations and businesses around the world. Rahul has been working on Microsoft Azure since the service was in its infancy, delivering an ITSM tool built for and on Azure in 2008. Since then, Rahul has played the roles of a developer, a consultant, and an architect for enterprises ranging from small start-ups to multinational corporations. He worked for over five years with Microsoft Services with diverse teams t. o deliver innovative solutions on Microsoft Azure. In Microsoft, Rahul was a subject matter expert in Microsoft cloud technologies. Rahul has also worked as a cloud solution architect for Microsoft, for which he worked closely with some established Microsoft partners to drive joint customer transformations to cloud-based architectures.

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