Microsoft® Azure® For Dummies®
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020931520
ISBN: 978-1-119-61214-8(pbk); 978-1-119-61218-6 (ebk); 978-1-119-61215-5 (ebk)
Microsoft Azure is a public cloud service in which you rent compute services from Microsoft that run in Microsoft’s data centers. You pay only for the resources you use over the course of your billing period.
I wrote this book to give you a gentle yet thorough introduction to Microsoft Azure, showing you how it works and why you may want to use it to save your company money, time, effort, and sanity.
You may wonder why you don’t find a large number of Azure–related books in your local bookstores or at online retailers. The answer is quite simple: Azure changes often, so print publishers have a great deal of difficulty keeping up.
I’ve worked with Azure for several years and have regular contact with Azure team members at Microsoft, who find it to be just as time- and effort-intensive to stay current with the technologies as users do.
Thus, I wrote this book with the intention of helping you with the following:
I include many web addresses, also called URLs, throughout this book. If Microsoft changes a page address, and the link I provide no longer works, don’t fret! Simply run a Google search for the article title, and you’ll find the updated page address nearly instantly.
Throughout this book, you’ll find dozens of step-by-step procedures. I want you to keep the following points in mind as you work through them:
https://azure.microsoft.com/free
) that gives you 30 days to spend $200 USD on any Azure service. This quota should get you through this book’s material so long as you delete your deployments when you finish using them.I assume that you have an Internet connection; otherwise, you’d be unable to access Azure (unless you’re using Azure Stack, but that’s a subject for another book).
Finally, most of the Azure administration and development tools are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. (I used a Windows 10 workstation.)
I wrote this book with several types of readers in mind. See whether you can place yourself roughly or exactly in any of the following descriptions:
Regardless of your present attitude and orientation toward Azure, I hope that by studying this book and applying its methods you can more knowledge about Azure and thereby excel in your profession.
If you’ve read a For Dummies book before, then you’re probably familiar with the icons. If not, or if you want a formal description of each, then read on!
Beyond what’s included between the covers of this book, I’ve created a Cheat Sheet that includes tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the Azure services you use over the course of the book. You can find the Cheat Sheet and other information related to this book (such as errata) by visiting https://www.dummies.com
and typing Azure For Dummies in the Search box.
Although I’d read this book in order starting with Chapter 1, you may not prefer to use that method. You can dip into any chapter with no formal dependency on those that come before it, so flip to the chapter that you want to begin with, and let’s get to work!
Part 1
IN THIS PART …
Figuring out exactly what “cloud computing” means and how Microsoft Azure fits into the cloud computing picture
Differentiating the different cloud computing deployment and service delivery models
Understanding the basics of Azure Resource Manager
Gaining familiarity with the various Microsoft Azure administrative tools