Introduction

The book you are holding is the result of 20 years of experience in the IT world; over 15 years of virtualization experience that started with VMware, Virtual PC, and now Hyper-V; and many years focusing on public cloud solutions, especially Microsoft Azure. My goal for this book is simple: to make you knowledgeable and effective in architecting and managing an Azure-based public cloud environment. If you were to look at the scope of Azure functionality in a single book, that book would be the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica. My focus for this book is the infrastructure-related services, including virtual machines in Azure, storage, networking, and some complementary technologies. I will also show you how to automate processes ...

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