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Learn Microsoft Azure: Build, manage, and scale cloud applications using the Azure ecosystem

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Learn Microsoft Azure

Understanding Azure Storage

This chapter introduces Microsoft Azure Storage, describing its importance, and the different types of Azure Storage. Then, you will learn about the different storage accounts and their different types, and in which scenarios they can be used. This is followed by an outline of the Azure services that you can use. Finally, we will cover the architecture of Azure Storage and look at what is going on behind the scenes.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage
  • Azure Storage types
  • Azure Storage accounts
  • Azure Storage services
  • Azure Storage architecture

Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage

Azure Storage is the bedrock of Microsoft's core storage solution offering in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll find find Azure Storage to be essential.

Azure Storage is a very scalable and highly available solution. You can store up to hundreds of terabytes of data. The data stored in Azure Storage is protected from corruption or loss because Azure Storage provides a highly available storage service that ensures that your data will be available, even if the primary storage server gets damaged.

Why use Azure Storage?

There are many reasons for using Azure Storage, which will be covered throughout this book. Some of them are listed here:

...

Azure Storage types

Azure Storage has many types and even sub-types, to satisfy Azure service consumer needs.

The most common types can be classified based on the following factors:

  • Durability (replication)
  • Performance (standard versus premium)
  • Persistency (persistent versus non-persistent)

Durability

One of the most popular questions about the cloud in general is what if, for some reason, the SAN/servers that store my data are completely destroyed? How can I restore my data?

The answer is very simple. Microsoft Azure Storage is durable and supports data replication; therefore, you can make sure your storage is highly available.

Replication ensures that your data is copied somewhere else, whether it is in the same data center...

Azure storage accounts

An Azure storage account is a secure account that provides access to Azure storage services (which will be covered later in this chapter), and a unique namespace for storage resources.

During the creation of a new Azure storage account, you will have the option to choose one of three kinds of storage accounts:

  • Storage (general purpose v1)
  • StorageV2 (general purpose v2)
  • Blob storage account

General-purpose storage account v1

A general-purpose storage account v1 gives you access to all Azure Storage services, such as blobs, tables, files, and queues, in a unified account. It has two performance tiers: standard and premium. This type is not the most cost-effective type of storage and it is the only type...

Creating an Azure storage account

In this section, we will get create an Azure storage account. To do so, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Azure portal from here: https://portal.azure.com/.
  1. Click on All services and a new blade will open. In the search bar, write storage account, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 2.1: Searching for a storage account service
  1. Click on Storage accounts and a new blade will open. Click on Add, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 2.2: Adding a new storage account
  1. A new blade will open. You need to fill in the fields and determine the following:
    • Name: The name of the storage account.
    • Deployment model: Select the deployment model that fits you. Only use Classic if you have other classic resources that need this resource to be classic too.
    • Account kind: Select the account kind that fulfill your needs.
    • Location: Select...

Azure Storage services

Azure Storage has multiple services that will fit most scenarios. At the moment, there are four types of Azure Storage services, which are as follows:

  • Blob storage
  • Table storage
  • Queue storage
  • File storage

Each of these services can be used for different scenarios, which we will cover in detail shortly.

Blob storage

Blob stands for binary large object. This type of service can store almost everything, since it stores unstructured data, such as documents, files, images, VHDs, and so on.

Using the Azure Blob storage service allows you to store everything that we have just mentioned, and you can access anything from anywhere using different access methods, such as URLs, REST APIs, or even one of the Azure...

Azure Storage architecture

Learning how to work with Azure Storage and how to design it to fit your solution is everyone's purpose, but learning what is going on behind the scenes and what every piece means is what makes you an expert.

Azure Storage is a distributed storage software stack built by Microsoft. The storage access architecture consists of the following three layers:

  • Frontend layer
  • Partition layer
  • Stream layer

Frontend layer

The frontend layer is responsible for receiving incoming requests, their authentication, and authorization, and then delivers them to a partition server in the partition layer.

You may wonder, how does the frontend know which partition server to forward each request to? The answer is...

Summary

In this chapter the information required to get your hands on Azure Storage has been covered. That includes identifying the different types of Azure Storage, storage services, which types of account services you should use, and so on. The chapter concluded with what's happening behind the scenes for Azure Storage to help you to fully understand it.

In the next chapter, we will cover Azure networking and how it works in Azure, the same as Azure Storage.

Questions

  1. Premium storage is only available for the locally redundant storage replication type. (True | False)
  2. Unlike all storage replication types, RA-GRS can be accessed whenever you want. (True | False)
  3. You can downgrade from Storage Account v2 to Storage Account v1. (True | False)
  1. Block blobs are the best Blob storage type for VHDs. (True | False)
  2. Table storage is the best storage service for messaging. (True | False)
  3. The stream layer is the layer responsible for storing bits on disk, and for data durability in Azure Storage. (True | False)
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  • Create, deploy, and host cloud applications on Azure
  • Understand various Azure services that help you host serverless applications
  • Explore practical examples to help you secure and troubleshoot your cloud environment

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Azure is one of the leading public cloud service providers. Thanks to a number of Azure service updates, it continues to make advances in the realm of cloud computing. Learn Microsoft Azure starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing. You will learn to configure and set up the Azure infrastructure. As you make your way through the book, you'll explore Azure services, along with working on virtual memory systems (VMS) and deployment models. You will understand various services in the Azure ecosystem, such as Azure IoT and Azure Analytics, among others. An easy-to-follow introduction to various cloud design patterns will also add to your efficiency in designing cloud solutions. In the concluding chapters, you'll secure your virtual networks using Network security groups and configure Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to set a custom domain name and company profile. By the end of this book, you will have learned to secure and troubleshoot your Azure cloud environment and be fully aware of best practices for Azure cloud administration.

Who is this book for?

Learn Microsoft Azure is for administrators, cloud engineers, and developers who want to get started with using Azure as their cloud platform and build cloud-based applications for their enterprises.

What you will learn

  • Understand the cloud services offered by Azure
  • Design storage and networks in Azure for your Azure VM
  • Work with web apps and Azure SQL databases
  • Build your identity management solutions on Azure using Azure AD
  • Monitor, protect, and automate your Azure services using Operation Management Suite (OMS)
  • Implement OMS for Azure services
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13 Chapters
Microsoft Azure 101 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Azure Storage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Familiar with Azure Virtual Networks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Azure Virtual Machines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Azure Web Apps Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Azure Web Apps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Basics of Azure SQL Database Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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There are too many repeated marketing sales points to take this all that seriously. For instance, cost. Azure is not cost effective except in some very narrow use cases. The majority of use cases make no fiscal sense to deploy to Azure. It seems like this book is perpetuating the "cargo cult" paradigm that pervades so many aspects of the software development world. But, hey. That's what everybody else is doing, so it'll work out, right? You'll somehow avoid the majority of failed outcomes that others can't, right? Because you're special?
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