Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781617297625)

In this fully updated and new edition, you'll get hands-on practice with the basics, including setting up cloud-based virtual machines, deploying web servers, and using hosted data stores. As you work through the book's 21 carefully planned lessons, you'll explore big-picture concerns like security, scaling, and automation.

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition teaches you the most important skills you'll need to write, deploy, and run cloud-based applications in Azure.

Key Features

- Understand Azure beyond point-and-click processes

- Getting started, from your first login

- Writing and deploying web servers

- Securing your applications and dana

- Automating your environment

Readers should be able to write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.

About the technology

With hundreds of features and prebuilt services, the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is vast and powerful. To get started, you need a trustworthy guide. In this hands-on book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on the core skills you need to create and maintain cloud-based applications.

Iain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft.