Implementing IaaS Solutions

We’ll now build on some of the fundamentals we covered in the previous chapter, focusing on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. We will explore Azure virtual machines (VMs) in depth, covering topics of design decisions, additional resources related to VM creation, and availability options.

We’ll take what we’ve already covered about Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and build on this knowledge further, focusing on ARM templates in more depth and discussing some of the more complex outcomes that ARM templates can enable, such as multi-tiered templates, conditional resource deployments, and the different deployment modes available.

One of the most exciting and game-changing recent innovations in the developer world is containers. We’ll start off with an introduction to what containers and container images are and why the interest in containers is rapidly growing among developers. We’ll discuss the components of...