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Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches
Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.
Summary
You can be incredibly productive with Azure without mastering every feature, function, and service. Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition gets you up and running quickly, teaching you the most important concepts and tasks in 21 practical bite-sized lessons. As you explore the examples, exercises, and labs, you'll pick up valuable skills immediately and take your first steps to Azure mastery! This fully revised new edition covers core changes to the Azure UI, new Azure features, Azure containers, and the upgraded Azure Kubernetes Service.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the technology
Microsoft Azure is vast and powerful, offering virtual servers, application templates, and prebuilt services for everything from data storage to AI. To navigate it all, you need a trustworthy guide. In this book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on core skills for creating cloud-based applications.
About the book
Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.
What's inside
Understanding Azure beyond point-and-click
Securing applications and data
Automating your environment
Azure services for machine learning, containers, and more
About the reader
This book is for readers who can write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.
About the author
Iain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - AZURE CORE SERVICES
1 Before you begin
2 Creating a virtual machine
3 Azure Web Apps
4 Introduction to Azure Storage
5 Azure Networking basics
PART 2 - HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE
6 Azure Resource Manager
7 High availability and redundancy
8 Load-balancing applications
9 Applications that scale
10 Global databases with Cosmos DB
11 Managing network traffic and routing
12 Monitoring and troubleshooting
PART 3 - SECURE BY DEFAULT
13 Backup, recovery, and replication
14 Data encryption
15 Securing information with Azure Key Vault
16 Azure Security Center and updates
PART 4 - THE COOL STUFF
17 Machine learning and artificial intelligence
18 Azure Automation
19 Azure containers
20 Azure and the Internet of Things
21 Serverless computing
Summary
You can be incredibly productive with Azure without mastering every feature, function, and service. Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition gets you up and running quickly, teaching you the most important concepts and tasks in 21 practical bite-sized lessons. As you explore the examples, exercises, and labs, you'll pick up valuable skills immediately and take your first steps to Azure mastery! This fully revised new edition covers core changes to the Azure UI, new Azure features, Azure containers, and the upgraded Azure Kubernetes Service.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the technology
Microsoft Azure is vast and powerful, offering virtual servers, application templates, and prebuilt services for everything from data storage to AI. To navigate it all, you need a trustworthy guide. In this book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on core skills for creating cloud-based applications.
About the book
Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.
What's inside
Understanding Azure beyond point-and-click
Securing applications and data
Automating your environment
Azure services for machine learning, containers, and more
About the reader
This book is for readers who can write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.
About the author
Iain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - AZURE CORE SERVICES
1 Before you begin
2 Creating a virtual machine
3 Azure Web Apps
4 Introduction to Azure Storage
5 Azure Networking basics
PART 2 - HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALE
6 Azure Resource Manager
7 High availability and redundancy
8 Load-balancing applications
9 Applications that scale
10 Global databases with Cosmos DB
11 Managing network traffic and routing
12 Monitoring and troubleshooting
PART 3 - SECURE BY DEFAULT
13 Backup, recovery, and replication
14 Data encryption
15 Securing information with Azure Key Vault
16 Azure Security Center and updates
PART 4 - THE COOL STUFF
17 Machine learning and artificial intelligence
18 Azure Automation
19 Azure containers
20 Azure and the Internet of Things
21 Serverless computing
368 pages, Paperback
Published October 6, 2020
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February 28, 2019
This is a good overview of Azure. It covers a bunch of Azure services. It's mostly focused on the admin side. It steps you through setting up services and seeing how they work, but it doesn't really cover programming. Most of the examples use the Azure Command Shell, using bash. (You could probably figure out how to use PowerShell instead, but the examples use bash.)
The book doesn't get into too much depth on any one subject. Each chapter is an overview of a particular subject, and takes about 30-60 minutes to read and work through. The book is still pretty current and up-to-date, as of February 2019, when I'm writing this review.
Overall, I found the book to be well-written and easy to follow. It definitely helped me flesh out my understanding of the many services available in Azure.
The book doesn't get into too much depth on any one subject. Each chapter is an overview of a particular subject, and takes about 30-60 minutes to read and work through. The book is still pretty current and up-to-date, as of February 2019, when I'm writing this review.
Overall, I found the book to be well-written and easy to follow. It definitely helped me flesh out my understanding of the many services available in Azure.
April 20, 2023
Azure Time
If you're new to Azure or just want to brush up on your skills, this is a fantastic resource.
The book does an excellent job of breaking down complex Azure concepts into easy-to-understand, bite-sized lessons. The author, Foulds, is clearly an expert in the field and his writing is clear, concise, and engaging.
One thing I particularly appreciated was the book's structure. By dividing the material into daily lessons, the book makes it easy to stay on track and to build your Azure knowledge gradually over time. And unlike some technical books, "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches" doesn't feel dry or overly technical.
That said, the book isn't for everyone. If you're already an experienced Azure user, you may find some of the content too basic. Additionally, the book assumes a certain level of technical proficiency, so if you're a complete beginner, you may need to supplement your reading with additional resources.
Overall, I highly recommend "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches" for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of Microsoft Azure. It's a well-written, easy-to-follow book that will have you up and running on Azure in no time.
4.4/5
If you're new to Azure or just want to brush up on your skills, this is a fantastic resource.
The book does an excellent job of breaking down complex Azure concepts into easy-to-understand, bite-sized lessons. The author, Foulds, is clearly an expert in the field and his writing is clear, concise, and engaging.
One thing I particularly appreciated was the book's structure. By dividing the material into daily lessons, the book makes it easy to stay on track and to build your Azure knowledge gradually over time. And unlike some technical books, "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches" doesn't feel dry or overly technical.
That said, the book isn't for everyone. If you're already an experienced Azure user, you may find some of the content too basic. Additionally, the book assumes a certain level of technical proficiency, so if you're a complete beginner, you may need to supplement your reading with additional resources.
Overall, I highly recommend "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches" for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of Microsoft Azure. It's a well-written, easy-to-follow book that will have you up and running on Azure in no time.
4.4/5
July 23, 2023
📕 Why (Not) to read this book (Target Audience)
Good overview off Azure services
👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
Software Defined Networking
Jump box: Azure Bastion
⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
Network resources are long lived resources
Create a separate resource group for Networks: These resources are more permanent
Good overview off Azure services
👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
Software Defined Networking
Jump box: Azure Bastion
⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
Network resources are long lived resources
Create a separate resource group for Networks: These resources are more permanent
April 28, 2021
Good bootstrap reference for getting started with Azure Portal.
Unfortunately suffers from the reality that enhancements to the service and/or user account parameters may leave some chapters obsolete or impossible to complete as written
Unfortunately suffers from the reality that enhancements to the service and/or user account parameters may leave some chapters obsolete or impossible to complete as written
May 2, 2021
between 3 & 4. Overview of different Azure services, from basics (networking, vms, etc.) to serverless, AKS, etc. azcli snippets could be useful, but not sure that I'll return to the book for that.
March 25, 2021
The book is a very high-level overview of different Azure services. There are some examples, but I'm not sure this book provides a lot of benefits vs. just using docs.microsoft.com
December 13, 2020
Enjoyed the hands-on approach on this book, and I would recommend it for anyone who wants to dive in. A bit of prior experience in developing is not required, but can be handy.
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