Timothy L. Warner

If you’ve spent any time in Azure Monitor, you’ve seen some of the myriad log files that your Azure resources create. Think of all the ways that data is represented in Microsoft Azure, and imagine a way to put all your logs in a single data lake and run queries against it seamlessly.Azure Log Analytics is a platform in which you do just that: aggregate VM and Azure resource log files into a single data lake (called a Log Analytics workspace) and then run queries against the data, using a Microsoft-created data access language called Kusto (pronounced KOO-stoh) Query Language (KQL).

Ready to work with Microsoft Azure’s technology? Here, you learn how to deploy Linux and Windows VMs (virtual machines) from Azure Marketplace. Deploying a Linux VM It’s understandable that most Azure experts to get a kick out of the fact that Microsoft supports Linux natively in Azure. It was inconceivable up until a handful of years ago that we’d be able to run non-Windows VMs by using Microsoft technologies.

If you really want to be successful with Microsoft Azure, you’ve got to keep up to date with it. To help you with that, here are ten hand-selected Azure educational resources. Happy reading! Azure documentation The Azure documentation library is your ultimate source of truth on how Azure products work. Microsoft has open-sourced the documents to GitHub, so community members (like you!

In a nutshell, Microsoft App Service is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)-based web application hosting service. Think of Microsoft App Service as GoDaddy, but with much more power. The idea is that if you're willing to surrender full control app’s underlying infrastructure (which is what Azure Virtual Machines is for) you’ll receive in exchange Global replication and geoavailability Dynamic autoscaling Native integration into continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines Yes, App Service uses virtual machines (VMs) under the hood, but you never have to worry about maintaining them; Microsoft does that for you.

When it comes to Microsoft Azure, Cosmos DB is the data store solution. Relational databases are all about schema, or structure. Many say that to be a relational database administrator, you should be a micromanager, because every data row needs to be heavily constrained to fit the table, relationship, and database schema.

The first step in designing an Azure Function is deciding what you want it to do. Suppose that you created a web application in Azure App Service that allows users to upload image files. Your fictional app’s source code places the user’s uploaded image files in a container named (appropriately enough) images, inside an Azure storage account blob (binary large objects) service container.

Microsoft Azure includes Logic Apps to help you build in workflows. This allows you to automate certain processes rather than manually manage.Suppose that your company’s marketing department wants to be notified any time a current or prospective customer mentions your corporate handle on Twitter. Without Logic Apps, your developers would have to register for a developer Twitter account and API key, after which they’d need to immerse themselves in the Twitter API to understand how to integrate Twitter with your corporate notification platform.

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) began life as Azure Container Service (ACS), which supported multiple container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes, Swarm, and DC/OS. The downsides of ACS were its complexity and the fact that most customers wanted first-class support for Kubernetes only. Therefore, although you may see an occasional reference to ACS in the Azure portal or elsewhere, let’s just ignore them and focus exclusively on AKS.

Microsoft Azure is a set of cloud services to help organizations meet business challenges. The services include tools for managing and deploying applications. Microsoft offers PaaS (platform-as-a-service), IaaS infrastructure-as-a-service), and SaaS (software-as-a-service) platforms to help businesses manage their technology demands.