Introduction To Microsoft Azure Basics: A Beginner's Guide
Introduction To Microsoft Azure Basics: A Beginner's Guide
Introduction To Microsoft Azure Basics: A Beginner's Guide
MICROSOFT AZURE
BASICS
A Beginner’s Guide
Overview
Gone are the days where you needed dedicated hardware for
servers to host an online business. Now, everything is hosted on
the cloud. Microsoft already has a huge share in the operating
system market, and according to a recent report, it is also gaining
ground as a cloud service provider with Microsoft Azure having an
18% market share and still increasing as it’s server products and
services rose by around 30% in the final quarter of 2019
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Some Amazing Azure
stats:
The report of Microsoft’s Q2 earnings of 2020 shows Azure has
helped increase Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue by 29%.
Azure alone contributes $50 billion in annual revenue run-rate
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What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an ever-growing collection of cloud services,
currently providing 17,000+ certified apps- all ranging from
analytics and computing to database and networking. It offers
a set of pre-built templates and services that help build and
manage an enterprise on various platforms. Shifting to a cloud-
based service helps you ignore many burdens that you would
have while maintaining servers in house, like networking, storage,
virtualization, and scalability. This also increases the uptime of your
service as Azure has data centres across 3 continents that ensure
you are always there to serve your clients.
Pay as you scale: With Azure, you don’t need to panic when
there is a spike in traffic to your online service as you can
quickly scale up or down to match demand. And, with per-
minute billing, you only pay for what you use.
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Exploring Azure
When working on a cloud-based system, you will find yourself
making Virtual Machines for testing, deployment, and several other
reasons. Let us suppose you want to create a Virtual Machine
running an Ubuntu server and understand how Azure makes the
process easy enough for anyone to follow.
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Azure Portal This will lead you to the Create a Virtual Machine
page.
Enter the details of the server like its network type, location,
SSH key, system name, and everything else. For those who
don’t wish to get too technical, Azure defines a lot of default
values as well
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Then, click on Review+Create and wait as your virtual machine
is created.
And, there you go! Did you see how easy it is compared to host-
ing it on a physical server? You don’t need to worry about storage
management or the ISO image with Azure.
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great dashboard that lays out all stats as a graph.
No need for any third-party tools to assess the resource usage, nor
a long downtime for making changes to your server. This conve-
nience helps a lot during sudden traffic spikes where fast upscal-
ing and downgrading is the key to make profits off of the incoming
clients.
And, the best part is that, you only pay for what resources you use
with the per-minute billing scheme. Another service that helps give
an idea of how Azure helps increase remote and distributed devel-
opment is by setting up a DevOps environment. We will be using
the Azure DevOps Demo Generator to see how we can distribute
the respective tasks in a premade project among the team mem-
bers by using the premade templates on Azure.
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The second option gives you a dashboard where you can manage
your code (it helps if you are already familiar with Visual Studio
Code) and also the tasks assigned to you and your teammates.
On the Create New Project page, enter the project name and
organization. Choose from one o f the templates provided by
Azure. Choose if you want to create a fork of the repository
being made (this will require GitHub authentication) and hit
Create Project
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From here, mention the respective tasks for different members
of the DevOps team in the To Do menu.
Keeping track is easy. You can change the state of the task as
and when they have been assigned or completed.
You can see the state of the task by navigating to the Boards
section.
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Getting Familiar with
Terminologies
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI): This is a command-line
interface to manage Azure resources and tools and is supported
by various platforms like Windows, macOS, and Linux. An
alternative is the Azure PowerShell that is only available for
Windows.
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Middleware: This is the software that lies between the
operating system and the applications and processes running
on it. This is responsible for the transfer of data among
different resources of the system.
Shared Access Signature (SAS): This helps you limit the access
to specific resources without revealing your account key.
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Skills Required for Azure
Although you are spared from worrying about network
architecture, virtualization, and storage management, you still
need to have a few skills to get used to maintaining a service
hosted on Azure. Azure provides a huge collection of tools and
resources to help you in the process, like:
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Get Started Now
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and video tutorials that cover topics from different areas of
technical expertise; whether it is cloud computing, software
development, or cybersecurity.
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