Azure Tutorials Series - Azure Basics

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We have been learning about clouds so far in all our tutorials, now once you are familiar about cloud concepts and its benefits, we can go ahead and cover Azure series and its benefits, we have already given you an idea about few of the cost management services of Azure such as Azure advisor, Azure TCO calculator. Let's learn some more concepts about Azure.

Azure Basics

  • Microsoft Azure provides public and private cloud at a reasonable rate
  • Provides access to third party tools with one bill.
  • Easy for developers and IT operators to manage, build, test and deploy applications with faster pace.

Azure Services

  • Covers plethora of services.
  • Majorly categorised services are -
    • Compute services - containers and VMs that helps you to run your applications
    • Database services - provides relational and NoSQL choices
    • Identity services - Such as IAM helps protect and authenticate the identity of users
    • Networking services - network configurations such as firewall, DNS, controlled traffic.
    • Storage solutions - accommodates massive amount of structural and non-structural data
    • AI and machine learning - Trending technologies, provides tools to analyse and forecast future predictions
We will cover each and every service of Azure in detail in upcoming articles. Let's understand how Azure really works first -

How Azure works

  • Uses virtualisation, consists of an abstract layer called 'Hypervisor'.
  • Can replicate the real computer in the form of Virtual machine
  • Data centres has huge amount of racks and each rack consists of a server and hypervisor which is connected to a switch.
  • Server connected to racks consists of a software called fabric controller and fabric controller is connected to another software called as Orchestrator which manages everything in Azure, including responding to user requests.
  • Orchestrator could be reached out by Azure API.
  • Orchestrator receives user request by Azure API and sends the request to fabric controller.
Covered most of the Azure basics in this post. Let's dive deep in now. Happy Learning and happy sharing!

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