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Microsoft Azure Compute: The Definitive Guide, 1st edition

Published by Microsoft Press (June 22, 2022) © 2022

  • Avinash Valiramani

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In this guide, a leading Azure consultant presents a deep dive into best strategies for Azure Compute planning, design, deployment, and operation. Avinash Valiramani covers Azure VMs and Scale Sets, App Services, the Azure Service Fabric, container instances, Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, Azure Batch, and more.

For each major compute workload, Valiramani introduces proven best practices reflecting his extensive real-world experience and collaboration with the Microsoft Azure team. With his practical guidance students can make the most of their Azure investment.

  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the best ways to design, deploy, and manage Azure compute workloads
  • Leverage proven best practices and insider insights for delivering
  • Azure services and solutions more efficiently
  • Accelerate cloud transformation while also optimizing cloud services cost

Chapter 1 Azure virtual machines

Chapter 2 Azure virtual machine scale sets

Chapter 3 Azure App Service

Chapter 4 Azure Virtual Desktop

Chapter 5 Azure Container Instances

Chapter 6 Azure Functions

Avinash Valiramani is an IT Infrastructure and Cloud Architect with more than 15 years of expertise in areas of Microsoft Technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Office365, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, SCCM, Intune, Hyper-V, and others. He is a certified Architect on Azure and Microsoft365 and primarily helps enterprises globally in their Cloud Roadmap Architecture and Onboarding/Migration Strategies & Implementation. Avinash is publishing four books on Microsoft Azure Best Practices series including this current one, collating real-world experiences to deliver a comprehensive and concise experience for new and budding technologists. Avinash also holds certifications in Barracuda, AWS, Citrix, VMware, and many other IT/Security industry certifications to complement his Microsoft expertise. He has authored a course of Azure Virtual Desktop for O'Reilly Media and is planning many others in the coming months. You can follow Avinash on Twitter at @avaliramani.

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