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Core solutions mgmt tools

Azure Core Solutions and Management tools

  • In IOT, Sensors captures data and relays such information for data analysis.

  • Azure IOT hub is a managed service that can acts as a central hub for bi-directional communication between application and device.

    • Lets you connect, monitor and manage your IOT devices
    • Sending alerts, notification and pushing firmware updates to the device

  • Azure Sphere

    • End to end and Highly secure IOT solution for the customer.
    • Has hardware and OS, built-in communication and security features for internet connected devices
    • Has Micro controller, OS and Signals from attached sensors
    • OS (Customized Linux OS)
    • Azure Sphere Security Service (AS3)
    • Dashboard can be created using IOT HUB Restful API

  • AI

    • Azure Machine Learning

      • Platform to predict
      • Test, train and deploy
      • access it via a web based API

    • Azure Cognitive Service

      • Prebuilt machine learning models
      • Enables app to see, hear, speak, understand and even begin to reason
      • OCR, Sentiment Analysis

    • Azure Bot Services

      • Conversational Purpose

  • Azure DevOps

    • Azure Repos
      • Centralized soruce code repo
    • Azure Boards
      • Agile Project Management
    • Azure Pipelines
      • CI/CD pipeline automation tool
    • Azure Artifacts
      • Repository for hosting artifacts
    • Azure test plans
      • Automated test tool
    • GitHub and GitHub Tools

  • Azure Dev Test Labs*

    • Provides automated way of managing the process of building, setting up and tearing down VMs that contain builds of software projects

Configuring and managing azure environment

  • Two broad categories of management tools : Virtual tools and code based tools

  • Code based tool is useful when setting up large deployment

  • Approach to managing hardware and cloud resources, which developers use when they write application code is referred to as "Infrastructure as Code"

  • Imperative - Coding Individual Step
  • Declarative - Details only desired outcome - It allows an interpreter to decide how to best achieve that\
  • Azure Resource Manager templates - JSON file - It can have both Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI scripts

Monitoring Services

  • Azure Advisor

    • Evaluates resources and provides recommendation to improve reliability, security, performance, cost and Operational Excellence

  • Azure Monitor

    • Taking actions on the logging data and metrics

  • Azure Service Health

    • Service issues such that outage in the region
    • Planned maintenance
    • Health advisory