Brief introduction to Azure platform services
With a brief introduction of the architecture and our objective for this chapter under our belts, we will start by setting up the Azure platform services required for the backend services.
The focus of this book is on application development with Azure, so we will not elaborate a great deal about the Azure platform, but will go through some important terminologies to make it easier to understand the activities we are carrying out.
Resource group and resources
Resource groups are used to logically distribute resources in Azure. They provide us with the flexibility to manage and segregate our resources. As a good practice, resources linked to a single deployment cycle should be part of one resource group. In the case of shared databases, resource groups can be kept on their own and used by other application components.
Resource groups help in managing and controlling access to resources. Based on your use case and organization...
