No ultimo dia 03 de Fevereiro, a Microsoft Press anunciou mais um E-book gratuito, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure dos autores de Michael S. Collier e Robin E. Shahan.
Na minha opinião se trata de uma literatura indispensável para nós profissionais de Infraestrutura de TI. Segundo a MS Press, este é o primeiro de uma série chamada Azure Essentials.
O e-book aborda os tópicos abaixo:
- Getting started with Azure: Understand what cloud computing is, visit the management portals, and learn about billing.
- Websites and Cloud Services:Learn about Azure Websites, from deployment to monitoring, and gain an understanding of the web and worker roles used in Azure Cloud Services.
- Virtual Machines:Explore the basic features of Azure Virtual Machines, including how to create, configure, and manage them.
- Storage:Read about the basics of Azure Storage, including blobs, tables, queues, and file shares.
- Virtual Networks: Learn the basics of virtual networks, including how to create one, and why a virtual network might be necessary. This also covers site-to-site and point-to-site networking, as well as ExpressRoute.
- Databases:Explore two relational database options available in Azure: Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines.
- Azure Active Directory:Explore basic features of Azure AD, including creating a directory, users and groups, and using the application gallery.
- Management Tools:Explore three common tools for working with Azure: Visual Studio 2013 and the Azure SDK, Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and the Cross-Platform Command-Line Interface
- Business Scenarios:Explore four common scenarios for utilizing Azure features: development and test, hybrid, application and infrastructure modernization, and Azure Mobile Services.
O e-book está disponível nos formatos PDF, Mobi e ePub e pode ser obtido aqui.
Não deixem de fazer o download e bons estudos!