Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials 1st Edition by Chukri Soueidi ISBN 1784390704 9781784390709

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ISBN 10: 1784390704
ISBN 13: 9781784390709
Author: Chukri Soueidi

With the many advantages of using cloud computing, Azure Storage is a robust platform that helps you shift faster to the cloud by providing scalable, durable and highly available data storage options. For developers, it provides a rapid development environment that supports building large-scale applications to support new scenarios on the cloud, server, mobile and web. For IT professionals, it reduces complexity of managing, protecting and replicating data. This book will make you familiar with the Azure storage in terms of architecture and components. It starts with the basics of storage accounts, which give access to the four basic services the Blob, Table, Queue, and File storage services. These services are exposed through a REST API that makes it possible for client libraries to implement most of their functionality in a wide range of popular programming languages. Emphasizing the Windows Azure Client Library for .NET, we will deal with storing and retrieving unstructured data with Blobs, then will move to Tables to insert and update entities in a structured NoSQL fashion. Then we will discover Queues as a reliable messaging service, and after that we will show File storage that allows you to migrate legacy applications data to the cloud to end with transient fault handling and service monitoring.

What you will learn

• Get familiar with Microsoft Azure Storage Service in terms of architecture and working
• Recognize the libraries and tools offered by Azure storage, supporting several popular programming languages
• Know how the storage services expose their resources as REST APIs and what client libraries exists to develop against the storage
• Gain the understanding of types of Blobs and best ways to upload and retrieve them
• Learn how to make use of Tables as a NoSQL data store and how to retrieve, insert, update and delete entities in terms of design patterns
• Use Queue storage as a messaging solution for communications between different apps
• Create mounted shares and allow legacy systems to access data using the SMB protocol
• Get accustomed to deal with faults, monitor storage metrics and logs

Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials 1st Table of contents:

1. An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services

• An introduction to Azure Storage

• High availability and durability

• Strong consistency

• Scalability

• Storage services

• The Blob storage

• The Table storage

• The Queue storage

• The File storage

• Storage accounts

• The namespaces and endpoints

• Storage account security

• Redundancy options

• Metrics and logging

• Summary

2. Developing Against Storage

• The Service Management REST APIs

• The request

• The response

• Microsoft Azure Management Libraries

• The Storage Services REST APIs

• The Blob service REST API

• The Table service REST API

• The Queue service REST API

• The File service REST API

• Azure Storage Client Libraries

  • Microsoft Azure Storage Client Library for .NET

  • Microsoft Azure Storage Client Library for Node.js

  • The Microsoft Azure Storage SDK for Java

  • The PHP Client Libraries for Azure

  • The Microsoft Azure SDK for Python

  • The Microsoft Azure SDK for Ruby

• Azure Storage Emulator

• PowerShell

• Summary

3. Working with Blobs

• Types of blobs

• Block blobs

• Page blobs

• The blob structure

• Containers

• Addressing blobs

• Using the Azure Storage Client Library

• Creating a container

• Uploading the first blob

• Getting acquainted with an explorer

• Downloading a blob

• The container access level

• Shared Access Signatures

• Deleting a blob

• Hierarchies

• The $root container

• The folder structure

• Listing blobs

• Paged listing and continuation tokens

• Properties and metadata

• Conditional headers

• Blob snapshots

• Summary

4. Working with Tables

• The arrival of NoSQL

• NoSQL

• The Table storage basics

• Entities

• Naming rules

• Using the Azure Storage Client Library

• Starting with a table

• Adding entities to a table

• Entity Group Transactions

• Updating entities

• Querying the table

• Continuation tokens

• Summary

5. Designing Scalable and Performant Tables

• Things to understand about Azure Table storage

• The table’s primary key

• The three layer architecture

• Partitions

• Entity Group Transactions

• Choosing between Azure Table and Azure SQL

• Table design guidelines

• Studying your data

• Partition sizing

• Querying performance

• Selecting the best PartitionKey

• Summary

6. Working with Queues

• The need for queues

• Increasing the availability and reliability

• Reducing latency and avoiding IO bottlenecks

• Load leveling

• Passing messages between Azure web roles and worker roles

• The Queue storage structure

• Addressing

• Naming

• Service Bus Queues

• Using the queue storage from .NET

• Creating our first queue

• Inserting a message in the queue

• Handling large messages

• Retrieving the next message

• Getting more messages

• The dequeueCount and poison messages

• Peeking messages

• Editing queue messages

• Setting metadata for the queue

• Getting the queue length and metadata

• Deleting queues

• Summary

7. Working with the Azure File Service

• Where are Azure Files used?

• The File storage structure

• Using Azure Files

• Using PowerShell with Azure Files

• Getting familiar with Azure PowerShell

• Creating a file share

• Creating directories and subdirectories

• Uploading the first file

• Downloading a file

• Listing files

• Removing files

• File Shares via the SMB 2.1 protocol

• Persisting connections to shares

• Mounting shares from Linux

• File Shares via the Storage Client Library

• Creating our share

• Creating a directory

• Uploading and downloading files

• Using AzCopy

• Summary

8. Transient Fault Handling and Analytics

• Transient fault handling

• Storage Analytics

• A closer look at metrics

• Transaction metrics

• Capacity metrics

• A closer look at logging

• The log format

• Analyzing the Storage Analytics data

• Common practices

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