Azure platform
Azure provides an ever-increasing set of PaaS and IaaS across a spectrum of technology areas. For our purpose, we will look at the subset of areas and services that are directly applicable and used by our application.
For ease of use, I have created this service categorization model across technology areas that are most relevant to typical business applications:
This is just an indicative list and by no means an exhaustive list. Refer to the Azure portal for a complete list.
In the preceding categorization models, we have divided the services into the following areas:
- Infrastructure: This is an all-encompassing list of services provided by Azure to deploy and host our applications. We have combined services across compute, storage, and networking in this category. We will be looking at the following set of services for the purpose of our sample Java applications.
- App Services: How can we take the existing Spring Boot applications and deploy them in our Azure platform? This is...