The Best Microsoft Azure eBooks for Beginners

This book has been written for the candidates who want to learn and use the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, candidates who have just started his career with Cloud services, who is already working with Azure cloud services. This is also dedicated for those who are preparing themselves for one of the most popular cloud certifications Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Exam.This is mainly focused on the hands-on lab exercises and real-world best practices rather than deep theoretical and conceptual lectures. However, we have covered enough concept and theory part of each of the mentioned topic.

There are hundreds of theoretical documentations are available on the Microsoft Azure official documentation site and few other sites on the Internet community. But, there are very few articles on the step by step how to guide to implement, use, and configure Azure Cloud services. This guide will help you to become handy and expert on most of the Microsoft Azure Cloud services that will help you start your career with Cloud technologies. However, this guide also contains various real world, enterprise-level, best practices to implement and use for the production services. These step by step lab exercises will help you to design a highly-secure, scalable, and well-architecture enterprise-level Cloud solutions and designs.We have covered the following topics in this guide along with step by step lab exercises:01. Cloud Computing Introduction02. Cloud Service Providers03. Types of Cloud04. Cloud Offering Classes05. Microsoft Azure Introduction06. Getting Started with Free Azure Subscription07. Getting Familiarized with Azure Portal Options08. Getting Azure Subscription Details09. Creating Administrative Users for Azure Cloud Management10. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for Azure Accounts11. Azure Pricing Calculator12. Introduction Azure Virtual Network (vNet)13. Creating an Azure Virtual Network14. Introduction to Azure Resource Groups15. Managing Resource Groups16. Introduction Azure Virtual Machines17. Understanding Azure VM Series Types18. Creating Azure Virtual Machine19. Connecting Azure Virtual Machines20. Detailed Explanation of Azure Virtual Machine Options21. Configure Disk in Azure Virtual Machine22. Capturing VM Image in Azure Cloud23. Creating Azure VM from Captured Image24. Importing and Exporting Azure Virtual Machine25. Azure Network Security Group (NSG)6726. Creating and Applying NSG for Azure Virtual Network27. Managing Azure Storage Services28. Working with Azure Storage Explorer29. Managing Azure Storage Using Azure CLI30. Working with Azure Files Share31. Mounting Azure Files Share32. Azure Database Storage Services33. Creating and Using Azure SQL Database34. Restoring Azure SQL Database35. Exporting Importing SQL Databases36. Azure Active Directory37. Azure Marketplace38. Working with Azure VPN Gateways39. Creating a Windows Server Virtual Machine40. Connecting Your Windows VM Using P2S VPN Gateway Securely41. Configuring vNet Peering Between Azure Virtual Networks42. Working with Load Balancers in Azure Cloud43. Configuring Azure Load Balancer44. Configuring VM Scale Set in Azure Cloud45. Configuring Application Gateway in Azure Cloud46. Configuring WAF in Azure Cloud47. Working with Azure Cloud Management Tools48. Managing Azure Account Using PowerShell49. Scheduling Auto and Stop Azure VMs.

Microsoft Azure is the fastest growing cloud platform in the world. This book is designed to help you to build strong foundation in Microsoft Azure. No prior Azure experience required. This course has been designed with an architectural approach. So, start taking this course and put yourself in high demand in the world of IT and command higher salary!!!Who this course is for:Students who are willing to learn Azure from ground zeroStudents who would like to make a career switch to Microsoft Azure cloudEnterprise architects, Solution architects, IT developersSystem, network, storage, application administrators.

A step-by-step guide to implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for Mobile, Hybrid, and Web applications. Key FeaturesThis book covers all these practices that can be utilized in real-life scenarios with sample applications written in Java, Android, iOS, Node.js, Angular, Ionic Cordova, Xamarin, Python, and PHP. This book provides detailed insight into Microsoft Azure Cloud, especially Platform as a Service Model - Azure App Services. This book utilizes the Multi-Stage Pipeline Feature of Azure DevOps.

Step by Step implementation of Continuous Practices of DevOps makes it easy to understand even for beginners of DevOps practices. Description. This book will cover an approach that includes the understanding of DevOps, Assessment of AS-IS state, DevOps Practices Implementation and measurement of success. The main objective is to demonstrate Continuous Practices of DevOps Culture using Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Azure Cloud across different types of applications such as Mobile apps, Hybrid Mobile App, and Web applications. The main idea is to have a uniform approach across different types of applications such as Mobile apps, Hybrid Mobile App, and Web applications. It is important to have a uniform approach of DevOps Practices implementation in an application written in different programming languages such as Java, Android, iOS, Node.js, Angular, Ionic Cordova, Xamarin, Python, and PHP. What will you learn. Learn to create a Multi-Stage (CICD) Pipeline for sample applications Configure Unit Test Execution and Code Coverage Reports in Azure DevOps for sample applicationsCreate and configure Cloud resources using Platform as a Service Model - Azure App Services for Web Applications and deploy Web Applications to Azure App Services using Pipeline Understand how to distribute Mobile App Packages (APK and IPA) to App Center. Who this book is for. This book is suitable for DevOps Consultants, DevOps Evangelists, DevOps Engineers, Technical Specialists, Technical Architects, Cloud Experts, and Beginners. Table of Contents. 1. Overview of DevOps Practices. 2. DevOps Assessment – Measure the “AS-IS” Maturity. 3. DevOps Practices Implementation for Android App – Azure DevOps Pipelines. 4. DevOps Practices Implementation for iOS App – Azure DevOps Pipelines. 5. DevOps Practices Implementation for Native Apps using App Center. 6. DevOps Practices Implementation for Java App – Azure DevOps Pipelines. 7. DevOps Practices Implementation for Node.js Apps – Azure DevOps Pipelines. 8. DevOps Practices Implementation for Angular App – Azure DevOps Pipelines. 9. DevOps Practices Implementation for Python and, PHP – Azure DevOps Pipelines. 10. DevOps Practices Implementation for Hybrid Mobile App (Ionic and Xamarin) – Azure DevOps Pipeline. 11. Azure DevOps Best Practices. 12. Measure Benefits of DevOps Practices Implementations. About the Author. Mitesh is a DevOps engineer. He is in love with the DevOps culture and concept. Continuous improvement is his motto in life with existing imperfection. Mitesh has worked on multiple DevOps practices implementation initiatives. His primary focus is on the improvement of the existing culture of an organization or a project using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. He believes that attitude and dedication are some of the biggest virtues that can improve professional as well as personal life! He has good experience in DevOps consulting, and he enjoys talking about DevOps and CULTURE transformation using existing practices and improving them with open source or commercial tools.