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Azure 101: Regions And Availability Zones

2023-03-20T01:52:44+00:00

Natural disasters are no laughing matter that we can take for granted; they can seriously mess up a business and its operations, especially when using traditional on-premises IT infrastructure. Luckily, with Azure regions and availability zones, companies can have a backup plan to ensure data redundancy, disaster recovery, scalability, and remote access. With Microsoft Azure, companies can continue to operate even in the face of natural disasters. This means that businesses can stay operational regardless of what Mother Nature throws their way. Azure Regions are geographically discrete data centers located in different locations around the world. It provides locations across [...]

Azure 101: Regions And Availability Zones2023-03-20T01:52:44+00:00

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

2023-03-20T03:31:35+00:00

Azure Resource Manager Cheat Sheet Azure Resource Manager is a service that allows you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. Enables you to manage access control, locks, and tags for your resources after they have been deployed. Features All requests are authenticated and authorized by ARM before being routed to the appropriate Azure service. Manage infrastructure using declarative templates and deploy it in a repeatable manner. Deploy, manage, and monitor all resources as a group. Tag resources to logically organize all the resources in your subscription. You can check the costs for a group of resources [...]

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)2023-03-20T03:31:35+00:00

Azure Active Directory (AD) vs Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

2021-02-24T01:51:59+00:00

Azure AD Azure RBAC Description An identity and access management service that helps you access internal and external resources. An authorization system that manages user’s access to Azure resources including what they can do with those resources and what areas they can access. Focus Grants permissions to manage access to Azure Active Directory resources. Grants permissions to manage access to Azure resources. Scope Tenant level Specify at multiple levels (management group, subscription, resource group, and resource) Roles    Important Azure AD built-in roles:  Global Administrator - manage access to all the administrative features in Azure AD.  User Administrator - [...]

Azure Active Directory (AD) vs Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)2021-02-24T01:51:59+00:00

Azure CycleCloud

2023-03-20T02:22:24+00:00

Azure CycleCloud Cheat Sheet Orchestrate and manage high-performance computing (HPC) environments on Azure. Enables you to provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and scale the infrastructure automatically to run jobs efficiently at any scale. Features Scheduler Agnostic - use standard HPC schedulers or extend CycleCloud autoscaling plugins to work with your own scheduler. Manage Compute Resources - manage VMs and scale sets to provide a set of compute resources to meet your workload requirements. Autoscale Resources - adjust cluster size and components automatically based on workload, availability, and time requirements. Monitor and Analyze - collect node-level metrics [...]

Azure CycleCloud2023-03-20T02:22:24+00:00

Azure Batch

2023-03-20T02:14:15+00:00

Azure Batch Cheat Sheet A service that runs large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) batch jobs in Azure. Allows you to run jobs in a group of Linux or Windows virtual machines. Components A task represents a unit of computation and a job is a collection of tasks. Job priority values range from the lowest priority to the highest priority. To specify certain limits for your jobs, you can use job constraints: Maximum wallclock time - tasks are terminated if the job runs longer than the specified time. Maximum number of task retries - if the task fails, it will [...]

Azure Batch2023-03-20T02:14:15+00:00

Azure Service Bus

2023-03-20T10:24:58+00:00

Azure Service Bus Cheat Sheet A fully managed message broker service. It allows you to decouple applications and services.  Provides a reliable and secure platform for asynchronous data and state transfer. Enables you to deliver messages to multiple subscribers and fan-out message delivery to downstream systems. Features Message Sessions for implementing first in, first out (FIFO) and request-response patterns to ensure the order of messages in the queue. Autoforwarding allows you to remove messages from a queue or subscription and transfer it to a different queue or topic (must be in the same namespace). A dead-letter queue holds the messages [...]

Azure Service Bus2023-03-20T10:24:58+00:00

Azure Service Fabric

2023-03-20T03:35:26+00:00

Azure Service Fabric Cheat Sheet A distributed systems platform that helps package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Build microservices and container-based applications using the programming language of your choice, including .NET Core 2.0, C #, and Java. It supports two types of microservices: Stateless - It does not maintain a mutable state outside a request and its response from the service such as protocol gateways and web proxies. Stateful - It maintains a mutable, authoritative state beyond the request and its response. Enables low-touch workflows to provision, deploy, patch, and monitor applications with Service Fabric application [...]

Azure Service Fabric2023-03-20T03:35:26+00:00

Azure ExpressRoute

2023-03-20T02:35:53+00:00

Bookmarks Features Use Cases Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Azure ExpressRoute Cheat Sheet Enables you to establish a private connection between your on-premises data center or corporate network to your Azure cloud infrastructure. More secure, reliable, and faster than conventional VPN connections. Supports dynamic routing between your network and Microsoft via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The connection is redundant in every peering location for higher reliability. Features ExpressRoute connections enable access to Microsoft Azure services and Microsoft Office 365 services from your on-premises network. Provides connectivity to all regions within a geopolitical region. To [...]

Azure ExpressRoute2023-03-20T02:35:53+00:00

Azure Front Door

2023-03-20T01:44:50+00:00

Azure Front Door Cheat Sheet A service that uses Microsoft's global network to improve the availability and performance of your applications to your local and global users. It works at the HTTP/HTTPS layer and uses a split TCP-based anycast protocol to ensure your users connect to the nearest Front Door point of presence. Supports a range of traffic-routing methods and backend health monitoring options for various application needs and automatic failover models. With URL-based routing, it routes the traffic to backend pools based on URL paths of the request. You can configure more than one website on the same Front [...]

Azure Front Door2023-03-20T01:44:50+00:00

Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

2023-03-20T03:32:55+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Roles Best Practices Validate Your Knowledge Azure Role-Based Access Control Cheat Sheet A role-based access control service to manage user’s access to Azure resources including what they can do with those resources and what areas they can access. It is an authorization system based on Azure Resource Manager, which provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources. Concepts A role assignment is composed of security principal, role definition, and scope. Security Principal - an object representing a user, group, service principal, and managed identity that requests access to Azure resources. Role Definition [...]

Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)2023-03-20T03:32:55+00:00

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