contents

 

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

Part 1.  Azure core services

  1  Before you begin

1.1  Is this book for you?

1.2  How to use this book

1.2.1  The main chapters

1.2.2  Try it now

1.2.3  Hands-on labs

1.2.4  Source code and supplementary materials

1.3  Creating your lab environment

1.3.1  Creating a free Azure account

1.3.2  Bonus lab exercise: Creating a free GitHub account

1.4  A little helping hand

1.5  Understanding the Azure platform

1.5.1  Virtualization in Azure

1.5.2  Management tools

  2  Creating a virtual machine

2.1  Virtual machine configuration basics

2.1.1  Regions and availability options

2.1.2  VM images