Focus exclusively on the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployment model for Azure automation and gain in-depth knowledge of topics such as runbook authoring, different types of automation runbooks, and hybrid cloud automation. This book covers practical approaches to creating runbooks for multiple use cases, including operational tasks such as VM management and integration of Azure automation with infrastructure monitoring solutions, such as Operations Management Suite (OMS). Along the way you’ll see how to use PowerShell in Azure automation and cover essentials including Azure automation security, source control integration, and runbook output streams. Finally, you learn about integrating Azure automation with Desired State Configuration (DSC) to include various cloud, on-premise, and hybrid scenarios. What You Will Learn · Work with the building blocks of Azure automation · Create different types of runbook · Master hybrid cloud automation with ARM · Implement cloud automation use cases with practical examples Who This Book Is For Infrastructure and cloud architects, cloud support engineers, and system administrators.

Microsoft Azure cloud adoption is on the rise, and Azure Automation plays a key role in building a sustainable and repeatable framework for creating and managing resources in Azure. This book will provide you an in-depth understanding of the options available in Azure Automation via the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) portal.Microsoft recommends the ARM model as the way forward for all Azure deployments. This book focuses exclusively on the ARM deployment model for Azure Automation. This model has more robust options when compared to the classic deployment model.This book provides in-depth coverage of topics such as runbook authoring and types of Automation runbooks. It also covers advanced topics including hybrid cloud automation from the ARM-based Azure portal.Chapter 1, "Introduction to Azure Automation," introduces Azure Automation, providing an overview of features and guidelines on getting started with the service in the ARM portal.Chapter 2, "Azure Automation Assets," explores the basic building blocks of runbooks, called Automation assets. These assets include schedules, modules, certificates, connections, variables, and credentials.Chapter 3, "Azure Automation Runbook Types," covers the various runbook types in Azure Automation: PowerShell, PowerShell Workflow, Graphical and Graphical PowerShell Workflow. This chapter gives a walk-through of runbook creation, testing, and publishing.Chapter 4, "Azure Automation DSC," covers integration of Azure Automation with PowerShell Desired State Configuration(DSC), including various cloud, on-premises, and hybrid scenarios.Chapter 5, "Hybrid Cloud Automation," covers the Hybrid Runbook Worker in Azure Automation, which facilitates execution of runbooks in your on-premises datacenters or systems hosted in third-party cloud service providers.Chapter 6, "Sample Runbooks and Use Cases," provides a walk-through of some popular use cases and their implementations using Azure Automation.This book is written for infrastructure and cloud architects, cloud support engineers, system administrators, and IT strategists with a basic understanding of the Azure cloud platform and PowerShell scripting.

Adopt Azure IaaS and migrate your on-premise infrastructure partially or fully to Azure. This book provides practical solutions by following Microsoft’s design and best practice guidelines for building highly available, scalable, and secure solution stacks using Microsoft Azure IaaS. The author starts by giving an overview of Azure IaaS and its components: you’ll see the new aspects of Azure Resource Manager, storage in IaaS, and Azure networking. As such, you’ll cover design considerations for migration and implementation of infrastructure services, giving you practical skills to apply to your own projects. The next part of the book takes you through the different components of Azure IaaS that need to be included in a resilient architecture and how to set up a highly available infrastructure in Azure. The author focuses on the tools available for Azure IaaS automated provisioning and the different performance monitoring and fine-tuning options available for the platform. Finally, you’ll gain practical skills in Azure security and implementing Azure architectures. After reading Practical Microsoft Azure IaaS, you will have learned how to map the familiar on-premise architecture components to their cloud infrastructure counterparts. This book provides a focused and practical approach to designing solutions to be hosted in Azure IaaS. What You Will Learn Map the key Azure components to familiar concepts in infrastructure, such as virtualization, storage provisioning, switching, and firewalls Implement Azure IaaS deployment architectures Design IaaS environments in line with the Microsoft recommended best practices for scalability, resiliency, availability, performance, and security Manage the operational aspects of hosted environments, leverage automation, and fine tune for optimal performance Who This Book Is For Infrastructure and solution architects with skills in on-premise infrastructure design who want to up-skill in Azure IaaS.

Design Engineering and Science teaches the theory and practice of axiomatic design (AD). It explains the basics of how to conceive and deliver solutions to a variety of design problems. The text shows how a logical framework and scientific basis for design can generate creative solutions in many fields, including engineering, materials, organizations, and a variety of large systems. Learning to apply the systematic methods advocated by AD, a student can construct designs that lead to better environmental sustainability and to increased quality of life for the end-user at the same time reducing the overall cost of the product development process. Examples of previous innovations that take advantage of AD methods include: • on-line electric vehicle design for electric buses with wireless power supply; • mobile harbors that allow unloading of large ships in shallow waters; • microcellular plastics with enhanced toughness and lower weight; and • organizational changes in companies and universities resulting in more efficient and competitive ways of working. The book is divided into two parts. Part I provides detailed and thorough instruction in the fundamentals of design, discussing why design is so important. It explains the relationship between and the selection of functional requirements, design parameters and process variables, and the representation of design outputs. Part II presents multiple applications of AD, including examples from manufacturing, healthcare, and materials processing. Following a course based on this text students learn to create new products and design bespoke manufacturing systems. They will gain insight into how to create imaginative design solutions that satisfy customer needs and learn to avoid introducing undue complexity into their designs. This informative text provides practical and academic insight for engineering design students and will help instructors teach the subject in a novel and more rigorous fashion. Their knowledge of AD will stand former students in good stead in the workplace as these methods are both taught and used in many leading industrial concerns.

CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES Contains a variety of cloud computing technologies and explores how the cloud can enhance business operations Cloud Technologies offers an accessible guide to cloud-based systems and clearly explains how these technologies have changed the way organizations approach and implement their computing infrastructure. The author includes an overview of cloud computing and addresses business-related considerations such as service level agreements, elasticity, security, audits, and practical implementation issues. In addition, the book covers important topics such as automation, infrastructure as code, DevOps, orchestration, and edge computing. Cloud computing fundamentally changes the way organizations think about and implement IT infrastructure. Any manager without a firm grasp of basic cloud concepts is at a huge disadvantage in the modern world. Written for all levels of managers working in IT and other areas, the book explores cost savings and enhanced capabilities, as well as identifies different models for implementing cloud technologies and tackling cloud business concerns. This important book: Demonstrates a variety of cloud computing technologies and ways the cloud can enhance business operations Addresses data security concerns in cloud computing relevant to corporate data owners Shows ways the cloud can save money for a business Offers a companion website hosting PowerPoint slides Written for managers in the fields of business, IT and cloud computing, Cloud Technologies describes cloud computing concepts and related strategies and operations in accessible language.

Microsoft Azure Essentials from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The second ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation, introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality. These runbooks are stored in and backed up by Azure. By automating runbooks, you can greatly minimize the occurrence of errors when carrying out repeated tasks and process automation. Watch Microsoft Press’s blog and Twitter (@MicrosoftPress) to learn about other free ebooks in the Microsoft Azure Essentials series.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-535–and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of architecting complete cloud solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. Designed for architects and other cloud professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design compute infrastructure Design data implementation Design networking implementation Design security and identity solutions Design solutions by using platform services Design for operations This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam skills Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Includes DevOps and hybrid technologies and scenarios Assumes you have experience building infrastructure and applications on the Microsoft Azure platform, and understand the services it offers