How do you deal with the problems you face when using Azure? This practical guide provides over 75 recipes to help you to work with common Azure issues in everyday scenarios. That includes key tasks like setting up permissions for a storage account, working with Cosmos DB APIs, managing Azure role-based access control, governing your Azure subscriptions using Azure Policy, and much more.

Author Reza Salehi has assembled real-world recipes that enable you to grasp key Azure services and concepts quickly. Each recipe includes CLI scripts that you can execute in your own Azure account. Recipes also explain the approach and provide meaningful context. The solutions in this cookbook will take you beyond theory and help you understand Azure services in practice.

You'll find recipes that let you:

• Store data in an Azure storage account or in a data lake
• Work with relational and nonrelational databases in Azure
• Manage role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure resources
• Safeguard secrets in Azure Key Vault
• Govern your Azure subscription using Azure Policy
• Use CLI code to construct your application or fix a particular problem

From the Preface

As an IT professional, I have always been fascinated by the world of cloud computing and the endless possibilities it presents. Azure, in particular, stood out to me as a platform that offered a comprehensive range of services and tools for businesses of all sizes. With its ability to simplify the development, deployment, management, and scaling of applications, it has a significant potential to revolutionize the way organizations operate.

Global end-user spending on public cloud services is expected to reach 591.8 billion USD in 2023, up from 490.3 billion USD in 2022, a 20.7% growth. This creates a huge demand for cloud professionals to fill in the job market talent gap. I had the opportunity to work on a wide range of Azure solutions for businesses of all sizes in the past few years, giving me a perspective on challenges that companies can face in a cloud journey. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), I had the privilege of sharing this perspective with thousands of IT professionals. This book aims to enable you to quickly acquire hands-on expertise with the key Azure services and concepts. I hope you use this book as a reference to solve common, yet fundamental, challenges in your Azure cloud projects.

Why I Wrote This Book

Writing this book was my way of contributing to the cloud revolution by sharing my experience with other professionals and enthusiasts. I wanted to create a resource that would not only provide an overview of a wide variety of Azure platform services but also guide readers through practical, hands-on scenarios and use cases. My aim was to equip professionals with the necessary skills to leverage Azure’s capabilities and help organizations drive their digital transformation. By writing this book, I hope to inspire others to fully embrace the power of Azure and the future of cloud computing.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is for cloud architects, developers, and engineers at all experience levels. Beginners will use the recipes in this book to familiarize themselves with the fundamental Azure services and gain hands-on experience with them. Expert cloud professionals will use this book to enhance their Azure projects, solve common architecture problems, and gain further perspectives. The recipes in this book showcase how multiple Azure services can be combined to deliver immediate value for you, regardless of your Azure expertise level. This book is for you, if you like to learn about a diverse set of Azure services for security, networking, big data, storage, databases, AI, containers, serverless, and web apps.

Review

"This book is like a library of Azure services and how to use them. It provides broad, deep, and practical knowledge to get you started and keep you going into production and beyond." - Barry Luijbregts, a.k.a. Azure Barry

From the Author

Writing this book was my way of contributing to the cloud revolution by sharing my experience with other professionals and enthusiasts. I wanted to create a resource that would not only provide an overview of a wide variety of Azure platform services, but also guide readers through practical, hands-on scenarios and use cases. My aim was to equip professionals with the necessary skills to leverage Azure's capabilities and help organizations drive their digital transformation. By writing this book, I hope to inspire others to fully embrace the power of Azure and the future of cloud computing.

About the Author

Reza Salehi has great passion for science and technology. He has been active in the professional technology field for the past 25 years. He helped organizations move to the cloud as a Software Developer, Cloud Architect, and Site Availability Engineer. He has trained thousands of students in person, and online in the O’Reilly Online Training platform, as well as other major players in the IT training industry. He has been a member of Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) community since 2008.