Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions. Exam Ref AZ-700 preparation guide

David Okeyode

Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions is a comprehensive guide that covers every aspect of the AZ-700 exam to help you fully prepare to take the certification exam.Packed with essential information, this book is a valuable resource for Azure cloud professionals, helping you build practical skills to design and implement name resolution, VNet routing, cross-VNet connectivity, and hybrid network connectivity using the VPN Gateway and the ExpressRoute Gateway. It provides step-by-step instructions to design and implement an Azure Virtual WAN architecture for enterprise use cases.Additionally, the book offers detailed guidance on network security design and implementation, application delivery services, private platform service connectivity, and monitoring networks in Azure. Throughout the book, you’ll find hands-on labs carefully integrated to align with the exam objectives of the Azure Network Engineer certification (AZ-700), complemented by practice questions at the end of each chapter, allowing you to test your knowledge.By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the fundamentals of Azure networking and be ready to take the AZ-700 exam.

Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure. A guide for architects and developers to expedite digital transformation with API-led architectures

Subhajit Chatterjee

API-centric architectures are foundational to delivering omnichannel experiences for an enterprise. With this book, developers will learn techniques to design loosely coupled, cloud-based, business-tier interfaces that can be consumed by a variety of client applications.Using real-world examples and case studies, the book helps you get to grips with the cloudbased design and implementation of reliable and resilient API-centric solutions. Starting with the evolution of enterprise applications, you'll learn how API-based integration architectures drive digital transformation. You'll then learn about the important principles and practices that apply to cloud-based API architectures and advance to exploring the different architecture styles and their implementation in Azure. This book is written from a practitioner's point of view, so you'll discover ideas and practices that have worked successfully in various customer scenarios.By the end of this book, you'll be able to architect, design, deploy, and monetize your API solutions in the Azure cloud while implementing best practices and industry standards.

Designing AWS Environments. Architect large-scale cloud infrastructures with AWS

Mitesh Soni, Wayde Gilchrist

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted,cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements. This book begins by familiarizing you with the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We explain the available options for AWS free tier with virtual instances and demonstrate how you can launch and connect them. Using practical examples, you’ll be able to design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Finally, the book focuses on security and important elements of scalability and high availability using AWS VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scaling. By the end of this book, you will have handson experience of working with AWS instances,VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scalingrelated tasks on Amazon Web Services.

Designing Hyper-V Solutions. Deploy Microsoft Virtualization and VDI solutions using real-world Hyper-V configurations

Saurabh Grover

Developing Blockchain Solutions in the Cloud. Design and develop blockchain-powered Web3 apps on AWS, Azure, and GCP

Stefano Tempesta, Michael John Pena

As Web3 technologies continue to gain momentum across industries, businesses are looking for new ways to leverage the benefits of Web3 and stay at the forefront of technological innovation. This comprehensive guide offers an in-depth exploration of cloud-native blockchain fundamentals, providing valuable insights into the benefits and challenges of deploying these technologies in the cloud. From foundational concepts to advanced techniques, the book covers everything you need to know about developing and deploying secure, scalable blockchain solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Through hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll explore the latest tools, technologies, real-world use cases, and best practices to expand your understanding of the field’s complexities and opportunities. This book ensures easy comprehension through practical examples and access to source code on GitHub. As you advance, you’ll master platform selection and apply your newfound knowledge to tackle complex problems and deliver innovative cloud-native blockchain solutions tailored for your specific needs. By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of cloud-native blockchain deployment and implementation, and you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge to build secure and scalable solutions.

Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide. A comprehensive guide to passing the AZ-204 exam - Second Edition

Paul Ivey, Alex Ivanov

Get ready to delve into Microsoft Azure and build efficient cloud-based solutions with this updated second edition. Authored by seasoned Microsoft trainers, Paul Ivey and Alex Ivanov, this book offers a structured approach to mastering the AZ-204 exam topics while focusing on the intricacies of Azure development.You’ll familiarize yourself with cloud fundamentals, understanding the core concepts of Azure and various cloud models. Next, you’ll gain insights into Azure App Service web apps, containers and container-related services in Azure, Azure Functions, and solutions using Cosmos DB and Azure Blob Storage. Later, you'll learn how to secure your cloud solutions effectively as well as how to implement message- and event-based solutions and caching. You’ll also explore how to monitor and troubleshoot your solutions effectively. To build on your skills, you’ll get hands-on with monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure applications, ensuring peak performance and reliability. Moving ahead, you’ll be able to connect seamlessly to third-party services, harnessing the power of API management, event-based solutions, and message-based solutions.By the end of this MS Azure book, you'll not only be well-prepared to pass the AZ-204 exam but also be equipped with practical skills to excel in Azure development projects.

DevOps: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Deployment with DevOps. Dive into the core DevOps strategies

Sricharan Vadapalli

DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline.This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible.This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps.This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Hands-on DevOps by Sricharan Vadapalli.

DevOps for Databases. A practical guide to applying DevOps best practices to data-persistent technologies

David Jambor

In today's rapidly evolving world of DevOps, traditional silos are a thing of the past. Database administrators are no longer the only experts; site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps engineers are database experts as well. This blurring of the lines has led to increased responsibilities, making members of high-performing DevOps teams responsible for end-to-end ownership. This book helps you master DevOps for databases, making it a must-have resource for achieving success in the ever-changing world of DevOps.You’ll begin by exploring real-world examples of DevOps implementation and its significance in modern data-persistent technologies, before progressing into the various types of database technologies and recognizing their strengths, weaknesses, and commonalities. As you advance, the chapters will teach you about design, implementation, testing, and operations using practical examples, as well as common design patterns, combining them with tooling, technology, and strategies for different types of data-persistent technologies. You’ll also learn how to create complex end-to-end implementation, deployment, and cloud infrastructure strategies defined as code.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to design, build, and operate complex systems efficiently.

DevOps for Serverless Applications. Design, deploy, and monitor your serverless applications using DevOps practices

Shashikant Bangera

Serverless applications are becoming very popular among developers and are generating a buzz in the tech market. Many organizations struggle with the effective implementation of DevOps with serverless applications. DevOps for Serverless Applications takes you through different DevOps-related scenarios to give you a solid foundation in serverless deployment.You will start by understanding the concepts of serverless architecture and development, and why they are important. Then, you will get to grips with the DevOps ideology and gain an understanding of how it fits into the Serverless Framework. You'll cover deployment framework building and deployment with CI and CD pipelines for serverless applications. You will also explore log management and issue reporting in the serverless environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn important security tips and best practices for secure pipeline management.By the end of this book, you will be in a position to effectively build a complete CI and CD delivery pipeline with log management for serverless applications.

DevOps with Kubernetes. Accelerating software delivery with container orchestrators

Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu

Containerization is said to be the best way to implement DevOps. Google developed Kubernetes, which orchestrates containers efficiently and is considered the frontrunner in container orchestration. Kubernetes is an orchestrator that creates and manages your containers on clusters of servers. This book will guide you from simply deploying a container to administrate a Kubernetes cluster, and then you will learn how to do monitoring, logging, and continuous deployment in DevOps. The initial stages of the book will introduce the fundamental DevOps and the concept of containers. It will move on to how to containerize applications and deploy them into. The book will then introducenetworks in Kubernetes. We then move on to advanced DevOps skills such as monitoring, logging, and continuous deployment in Kubernetes. It will proceed to introduce permission control for Kubernetes resources via attribute-based access control and role-based access control. The final stage of the book will cover deploying and managing yourcontainer clusters on the popular public cloud Amazon Web Services and GoogleCloud Platform. At the end of the book, other orchestration frameworks, such asDocker Swarm mode, Amazon ECS, and Apache Mesos will be discussed.

DevOps with Kubernetes. Accelerating software delivery with container orchestrators - Second Edition

Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu

Kubernetes has been widely adopted across public clouds and on-premise data centers. As we're living in an era of microservices, knowing how to use and manage Kubernetes is an essential skill for everyone in the IT industry.This book is a guide to everything you need to know about Kubernetes—from simply deploying a container to administrating Kubernetes clusters wisely. You'll learn about DevOps fundamentals, as well as deploying a monolithic application as microservices and using Kubernetes to orchestrate them. You will then gain an insight into the Kubernetes network, extensions, authentication and authorization. With the DevOps spirit in mind, you'll learn how to allocate resources to your application and prepare to scale them efficiently. Knowing the status and activity of the application and clusters is crucial, so we’ll learn about monitoring and logging in Kubernetes. Having an improved ability to observe your services means that you will be able to build a continuous delivery pipeline with confidence. At the end of the book, you'll learn how to run managed Kubernetes services on three top cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.

Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Use VMware vCenter SRM as a disaster recovery solution leveraging both array-based replication and vSphere Replication

Abhilash G B

Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks. Create, deploy, and manage enterprise data pipelines

Alan Bernardo Palacio

Microsoft Azure Databricks helps you to harness the power of distributed computing and apply it to create robust data pipelines, along with training and deploying machine learning and deep learning models. Databricks' advanced features enable developers to process, transform, and explore data. Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks will help you to put your knowledge of Databricks to work to create big data pipelines. The book provides a hands-on approach to implementing Azure Databricks and its associated methodologies that will make you productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you’ll begin with a quick introduction to Databricks core functionalities, before performing distributed model training and inference using TensorFlow and Spark MLlib. As you advance, you’ll explore MLflow Model Serving on Azure Databricks and implement distributed training pipelines using HorovodRunner in Databricks. Finally, you’ll discover how to transform, use, and obtain insights from massive amounts of data to train predictive models and create entire fully working data pipelines. By the end of this MS Azure book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how to work with Databricks to create and manage an entire big data pipeline.

Docker Deep Dive. Zero to Docker in a single book - Third Edition

Nigel Poulton

Embark on a transformative journey into the world of Docker and containers with this expertly crafted course. Starting with a high-level overview, you'll gain a solid understanding of containers and the significance of Docker in modern software development. Delve into Docker's core components, exploring essential standards, projects, and the intricacies of the Docker Engine, ensuring a robust foundation.As you progress, practical hands-on modules will guide you through working with images and containers, containerizing applications, and managing multi-container setups using Docker Compose. You'll learn to deploy applications efficiently with Docker Swarm and Docker Stacks, enhancing your ability to manage and scale containerized applications. The course also introduces Docker's integration with WebAssembly, offering a glimpse into cutting-edge container technologies.Concluding with advanced topics, you'll master Docker networking, including overlay networks and persistent data management with volumes. Emphasis on Docker security ensures you can safeguard your applications and data effectively. By the end of this course, you'll possess the skills and knowledge to leverage Docker's full capabilities, from development to deployment, ensuring you remain at the forefront of container technology.

Docker for Serverless Applications. Containerize and orchestrate functions using OpenFaas, OpenWhisk, and Fn

Chanwit Kaewkasi

Serverless applications have gained a lot of popularity among developers and are currently the buzzwords in the tech market. Docker and serverless are two terms that go hand-in-hand.This book will start by explaining serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) concepts, and why they are important. Then, it will introduce the concepts of containerization and how Docker fits into the Serverless ideology. It will explore the architectures and components of three major Docker-based FaaS platforms, how to deploy and how to use their CLI. Then, this book will discuss how to set up and operate a production-grade Docker cluster. We will cover all concepts of FaaS frameworks with practical use cases, followed by deploying and orchestrating these serverless systems using Docker. Finally, we will also explore advanced topics and prototypes for FaaS architectures in the last chapter.By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build and deploy your own FaaS platform using Docker.

Docker on Amazon Web Services. Build, deploy, and manage your container applications at scale

Justin Menga

Over the last few years, Docker has been the gold standard for building and distributing container applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leader in public cloud computing, and was the first to offer a managed container platform in the form of the Elastic Container Service (ECS).Docker on Amazon Web Services starts with the basics of containers, Docker, and AWS, before teaching you how to install Docker on your local machine and establish access to your AWS account. You'll then dig deeper into the ECS, a native container management platform provided by AWS that simplifies management and operation of your Docker clusters and applications for no additional cost. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you'll solve key operational challenges, including secrets management and auto-scaling your infrastructure and applications. You'll explore alternative strategies for deploying and running your Docker applications on AWS, including Fargate and ECS Service Discovery, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swarm and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In addition to this, there will be a strong focus on adopting an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach using AWS CloudFormation.By the end of this book, you'll not only understand how to run Docker on AWS, but also be able to build real-world, secure, and scalable container platforms in the cloud.