Exploring common goals – Engaging with Real-World Customers
Microsoft Azure advises following what is known as the Well-Architected Framework, which covers the five key pillars that need to be considered when designing solutions. Following these areas is a great way to ensure that your design has captured the main points and provide a starting point for your requirements gathering. As a refresher, the …
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Gathering requirements – Engaging with Real-World Customers
There are many examples of projects that have overrun budgets and timeframes, and quite often this is because of a lack of, or at least understanding of, requirements. The choice of an agile delivery method over a waterfall approach is sometimes driven by the fact that it is difficult for customers to know what they …
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Working with customers – Engaging with Real-World Customers
In the last chapter, we completed the logging and monitoring topic, and the part of the book that covers the AZ-304 exam requirements. In this chapter, we’ll look beyond specific design considerations and look at more general working practices in cloud architecture. What we cover in this and the next chapter will not be included …
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Azure Artifacts – Scripted Deployments and DevOps Automation
In software development, it is common to want to share code or even pre-built components that execute specific tasks. For example, if a developer has built a function that performs a complex calculation, you may wish to share that with other developers as an artifact so that they can re-use it. This is different from …
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Azure Pipelines – Scripted Deployments and DevOps Automation
We can build and deploy components in Azure from ARM templates using PowerShell or the Azure CLI by using the New-AzResourceGroupDeployment or az deployment group create commands. Azure Pipelines provides on-demand VM nodes with the necessary tooling installed to perform our deployments. In other words, rather than running the required PowerShell or Azure CLI scripts …
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Azure Repos – Scripted Deployments and DevOps Automation
Azure Repos allows you to control and manage code changes by enforcing versioning and tracking of changes across files. Code is stored in a repository and repositories use branches to provide an additional layer of management. Each repository has at least one branch; by default, this is called the master branch. When a user wishes …
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Looking at Azure DevOps – Scripted Deployments and DevOps Automation
Throughout this chapter, we have been looking at how we can encode infrastructure in script files and ARM templates that then allow us to automate deployments using those artifacts. This process is often referred to as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and fits well with agile-based delivery mechanisms as it provides the ability to build solutions …
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Understanding ARM templates – Scripted Deployments and DevOps Automation-2
For example, in the preceding ARM template example for creating a storage account, we generate the storage account name using the text store followed by a GUID: “variables”: { “storageAccountName”: “[concat(‘store’, uniquestring(resourceGroup().id))]” }, Further complexity can be added using conditional statements using the following format: “condition”: “[equals(parameters(‘<someparameter>’),'<somevaluetotestfor>’)]” For example, you can test for the value …
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Understanding ARM templates – Scripted Deployments and DevOps Automation-1
Just as other tools are simply wrappers for the Azure REST APIs, everything that is built in Azure is defined as an ARM template. Whether you create a service through the Azure portal, PowerShell, REST APIs, or the CLI, ultimately that service is described within an ARM template. An ARM template is a JSON-based text …
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