Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, 2nd Edition

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.

Summary
You can be incredibly productive with Azure without mastering every feature, function, and service. Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition gets you up and running quickly, teaching you the most important concepts and tasks in 21 practical bite-sized lessons. As you explore the examples, exercises, and labs, you’ll pick up valuable skills immediately and take your first steps to Azure mastery! This fully revised new edition covers core changes to the Azure UI, new Azure features, Azure containers, and the upgraded Azure Kubernetes Service.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Microsoft Azure is vast and powerful, offering virtual servers, application templates, and prebuilt services for everything from data storage to AI. To navigate it all, you need a trustworthy guide. In this book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on core skills for creating cloud-based applications.

About the book
Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.

What’s inside

    Understanding Azure beyond point-and-click
    Securing applications and data
    Automating your environment
    Azure services for machine learning, containers, and more

About the reader
This book is for readers who can write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“A great overview of the vast Azure offerings – from the essentials tothe good stuff.” – Juraj Borza, NIKÉ

“The author presents Azure in exactly the right order so the readercan put all the pieces together easily and logically.” – GeorgeOnofrei, DevEx Solutions 

“A lifesaver if you want or have to dive into Azure.” – Charles Lam,EVN AG

“Iain Foulds’s book gives you a head start in Azure without a bigtime commitment.” – Peter Kreyenhop, Department of Internal Affairs(NZ)

About the Author

Iain Foulds is a senior content developer with Microsoft, writing for Azure. He spent over a decade as an engineer building and running virtualization environments and delivering training in Azure.

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