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Azure Replication Strategies

  The data in your Azure storage account is always replicated to ensure durability and high availability. Azure Storage replication copies your data so that it is protected from planned and unplanned events ranging from transient hardware failures, network or power outages, massive natural disasters You can choose to replicate your data within the same data center, across zonal data centers within the same region, and even across regions. Replication ensures that your storage account meets the Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Storage even in the face of failures. Comparison Of Replication Options:   LRS ZRS GRS/RA-GRS GZRS/RA-GZRS Node unavailability within  a data center Yes Yes Yes Yes An entire data center (zonal or non-zonal)  becomes unavailable No Yes Yes Yes A region-wide outage No N...

Azure Storage

Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios.    Why Azure Storage: Durable and Highly Available: ·        Data is safe during hardware failure. ·        Replicate data across data centres. ·        In local catastrophe or natural disaster data replicated to other data centres remains highly available. Secure: ·        Data encrypted by Azure service Storage Service encryption (SSE) for data at rest. ·        Completed control over who access your data. Scalable: ·        Designed to massive scale. Managed: ·        Azure handles maintenance, updates and critical issues. Accessible: ·        Accessible from anywhere in the world. ·        You can access using http, https,...

Roadmap to DevOps

    DevOps is nothing but the combination of process and philosophies which contains four basic component culture, collaboration, tools, and practices. In return, this gives a good automated system and infrastructure which helps an organisation to deliver a quality and reliable build. The beauty of this culture is it enables a quality for organizations to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market and also add some promised benefits which include confidence and trust, faster software releases, ability to solve critical issues quickly, and better manage unplanned work.   1. What are the tasks of a DevOps Engineer? Design, build, test and deploy scalable, distributed systems from development through production Manage the code repository(such as Git, SVN, BitBucket, etc.) including code merging and integrating, branching and maintenance and remote repository management Manage, configure and maintain infra...

Azure Active Directory

  What is Azure Active Directory? Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service. For an organization, Azure AD helps employees sign up to multiple services and access them anywhere over the cloud with a single set of login credentials. Azure Active Directory Concept: It is important to understand these Azure AD concepts. Identity . An object that can get authenticated. An identity can be a user with a username and password. Account . An identity that has data associated with it. You can't have an account without an identity. Azure subscription . Used to pay for Azure cloud services. You can have many subscriptions and they're linked to a credit card. Azure tenant/directory . A dedicated and trusted instance of Azure AD, a Tenant is automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription. More instances of Azure AD can be created. Azure AD is the underlying product ...

Azure Account Create

  Hello All,   In this blog we will see how to create a free azure account. Go to the below url to create azure account. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/ once you hit the above url you will be redirected to the below page. Click on start free to proceed further. In next screen you need to provide your gmail account to create an azure account. So if you already have gmail account then provide the account name and click on next. If you don’t have gmail account you can create your account with phone number or create the new account and use it. After providing your account details it will ask you for password, enter your password to continue. Once you click on next, azure will send the confirmation code on given email id or phone number. Provide the received code to proceed further. Once you provided the confirmation code azure will verify your account details and will ask you to solve the puzzle to avoid misuse of azure account. Once you solved the puzzle azure w...