Understanding microservices – Comparing Application Components

Designing storage security Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Logging systems Microsoft AZ-304 Certifications 09/13/2024
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One of the goals of cloud computing is to provide cost-effective solutions that are dynamic and reliable. In Chapter 7, Designing Compute Solutions, we looked at several different components: containers, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps. One of the key differences between these services and more traditional compute options, such as VMs, is the ability …

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Client certificates – Comparing Application Components

Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Logging systems Microsoft AZ-304 Certifications Operational decisions 08/20/2024
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You can configure the Azure API gateway so that it requires a certificate when making calls. Whereas subscription keys are generated by you and can be quickly supplied, certificates provide greater security. However, the certificate must be generated by a certificate authority and securely provided to your consumers. But when security and control are of …

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Using API policies – Comparing Application Components

Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Logging systems Microsoft AZ-304 Certifications Operational decisions The discovery phase 07/04/2024
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Azure API Management policies allow you to change how your APIs function and behave. Typical examples include rate-limiting responses, converting one format to another, such as XML to JSON, or even modifying the contents of the data returned. Azure API Management offers a range of built-in policies, or you can create custom ones. The following …

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Managing APIs with Azure API Gateway – Comparing Application Components

Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Microsoft AZ-304 Certifications Operational decisions The discovery phase Using deployment slots 06/19/2024
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When building cloud solutions and web applications, it is common to use APIs – specific types of apps that only return data in JSON or XML. This data is then used by a consuming application, a desktop application, a mobile application, or even a website. APIs can be used internally or to expose your data …

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Using deployment slots – Comparing Application Components

Azure Traffic Manager Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Operational decisions The discovery phase Using deployment slots 04/28/2024
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A powerful feature of app services in Azure is deployment slots. When publishing updates to app services, you need to be confident that your latest changes do not break the existing running application. Although you should always test changes in lower environments such as a development or test environment first, a final production deployment can …

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Working with web applications – Comparing Application Components

Azure Traffic Manager Designing storage security Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 The discovery phase Using deployment slots 03/16/2024
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In the previous chapter, we concluded Section 3, Infrastructure and Storage Components, by looking at how to migrate existing on-premises workloads into Azure and what different options were available from an architectural and strategic perspective. With this chapter, we begin Section 4, Applications and Databases, by looking at the different options and architectural patterns for …

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Azure Advisor – Migrating Workloads to Azure

Azure Traffic Manager Designing storage security Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Using deployment slots 01/30/2024
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Perhaps the most useful tool, Azure Advisor makes suggestions for you based on your services’ many different aspects. Categorized by cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance, you can quickly see a series of opportunities to optimize your service. Some of these recommendations include cost and performance options. As we discussed earlier, however, Azure Advisor …

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Monitoring and optimizing your migration – Migrating Workloads to Azure

Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Logging systems The discovery phase Using deployment slots 12/26/2023
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Azure has several opportunities for enhancing performance and security that you may not have used with your on-premises systems. It is also possible that your existing servers were underutilized or even overutilized, which can impact costs. Therefore, once migrated, you should monitor your workloads for performance trends, security enhancements, or cost optimizations. To support these …

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Migrating databases – Migrating Workloads to Azure

Azure Traffic Manager Designing storage security Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Microsoft AZ-304 Certifications Operational decisions 10/05/2023
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Like the VM migration service, you must create a database migration project in the Azure Migrate blade in the Azure portal to get started with the database migration service.The first step is to download the Data Migration Assessment (DMA) tool. Unlike the VM migration tool that comes pre-installed on a VM image, the DMA tool …

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Migrating virtual machines and databases – Migrating Workloads to Azure

Azure Traffic Manager Exams of Microsoft AZ-304 Microsoft AZ-304 Certifications The discovery phase 09/22/2023
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Depending on how you plan to migrate into Azure, determine your next steps and what tools are required. Refactorization, re-architecting, rebuilding, and replacing are manual processes and will need to be managed as individual projects. There are several tools available for VM migrations, and again, the Azure Migrate tool can perform this task for you. …

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