Table Of ContentImplementing Azure Solutions
Eliminate the pain point of implementation
Florian Klaffenbach
Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Oliver Michalski
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Implementing Azure Solutions
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About the Authors
Florian Klaffenbach started in 2004 with his IT carrier as 1st and 2nd Level IT Support
Technician and IT Salesman Trainee for a B2B online shop. After that, he changed to a small
company working as IT Project Manager, planning, implementing, and integration from
industrial plants and laundries into enterprise IT. After spending some years, he changed
his path to Dell Germany. There he started from scratch as an Enterprise Technical Support
Analyst and later worked on a project to start Dell Technical Communities and support
over social Media in Europe and outside of the U.S.
Currently he is working as a Solutions Architect and Consultant for Microsoft Infrastructure
and Cloud and is specialized in Microsoft Hyper-V, Fileservices, System Center Virtual
Machine Manager, and Microsoft Azure IaaS at msg services ag.
In addition to his job, he is active as a Microsoft Blogger and Lecturer. He blogs for example
on his own page Datacenter-Flo.de or Azure Community Germany. Together with a very
good friend, he founded the Windows Server User Group Berlin to create network of
Microsoft ITPros in Berlin.
Florian maintains a very tight network for many vendors such as Cisco, Dell, or Microsoft
and Communities. This helps him to grow his experience and to get the best solution for his
customers. Since 2016, he is also Co-Chairman of the Azure Community Germany. In April
2016, Microsoft awarded Florian Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Cloud and
Datacenter Management.
With that few lines, I want to thank all people, especially my family and friends who
supported me while writing the book. Most of them didn’t see me for a long time because I
was spending most of my spare time for preparing the next chapter or testing new features
which I wanted to mention within the book.
I also want to thank the guys from Microsoft and the coauthors Jan-Henrik and Oliver who
support with reviewing and clearing some open questions and misunderstandings.
Hopefully you as reader enjoy the reading the book as much as I writing it.
Jan-Henrik Damaschke is an IT Consultant for Security, Network, and Infrastructure from
Germany. He was MVP awarded in the categories of Enterprise Security, PowerShell, and
AzureStack. PKI implementation and management is one of his core competencies as well
as cloud-related security. He writes articles on security-related topics and is involved in
many community events as a speaker as well as an organizer. He is passionate about
sharing knowledge with others. For this purpose, he is member of the Microsoft Student
Partner program and is engaged on forums and on other platforms. Currently, he is writing
a book on Azure infrastructure solutions.
Oliver Michalski started in 1999 with his IT carrier as a Web Developer. Now, he is a
Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft .NET and an SOA Architect. He also works as an
Independent Enterprise Consultant in the field Microsoft Azure. When he started in 2011
with Microsoft Azure, there was no Azure Community on the German market. Therefore,
Oliver founded the Azure Community Germany (ACD).
Oliver is Chairman of the Azure Community Germany, and since April 2016 he has been a
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure.
About the Reviewers
Sebastian Durandeu is a senior software engineer with a primary focus on building
applications and services for the Cloud using Microsoft technologies. He works at
Southworks, a high-end software development company that helps businesses leverage the
latest technologies. There he has worked closely with several Microsoft divisions helping
the developer community adopt emerging technologies using recommended practices.
Sebastian currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he is an active contributor in the
developer community. He shares his knowledge via his Twitter (@sebadurandeu) and
GitHub accounts (sdurandeu).
Rafael dos Santos Christian, Geysla’s husband, Ted’s father, Entrepreneur, Developer,
Cloud specialist. 10 years experience developing and architecting web based solutions.
I would like to thank Lucas Romao for the support and mentoring on learning Microsoft
Azure. I also would like to thank all the SDK Team at ITIX, you guys are amazing and I
love work with you guys.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Azure Implementation
6
Service models 7
Deployment models 8
Cloud characteristics 10
Microsoft Azure 11
Azure services overview 11
Azure basics 13
Azure Resource Manager 14
Resources 14
Azure regions 15
Azure Portal 15
Azure automation 15
Azure Automation tools 16
REST APIs 16
Summary 17
Chapter 2: Azure Resource Manager and Tools
18
Understanding the Azure resource manager 19
Functionalities provided by the Azure resource manager 19
Working with the Azure resource manager 20
Creating an Azure resource group 21
Adding a resource to an Azure resource group 24
First approach - adding a storage account to your Azure resource group 24
Second approach - adding a storage account to your Azure resource
group 27
Third approach - adding a storage account to your Azure resource group 29
Tagging in the Azure resource manager 38
Locking Azure resources 44
Azure resource locks 44
Working with ARM templates 47
Exporting a deployment as an ARM template (for IT pros) 48
Example 1: exporting a resource group to an ARM template 49
Example 2: exporting a resource (from the deployment history) to an ARM template 51
Example 3: exporting a resource (classic) to an ARM template 53
