The next step in our cloud journey is to leverage the Azure Virtual Machines offering as part of Azure IaaS. This is the first logical step when moving our workloads to the cloud, as managing Azure Virtual Machines is not much different from managing local VMs. We no longer have access to the virtualization host and hardware, but administrating and managing Azure VMs is no different from administrating and managing local servers or VMs.
We'll show you how to achieve high availability of your services and how to scale out workloads as one of the main benefits that Microsoft Azure offers.
Areas that we'll cover in this chapter are:
- Creating Azure Virtual Machines
- Managing Azure ...
