A practical guide that enhances your skills in implementing Azure solutions for your organization About This Book * Confidently configure, deploy, and manage cloud services and virtual machines * Implement a highly-secured environment and respond to threats with increased visibility * This comprehensive guide is packed with exciting practical scenarios that enable you to implement Azure solutions with ease Who This Book Is For This book is for IT architects, system and network admins, and DevOps engineers who are aware of Azure solutions and want to implement them for their organization. What You Will Learn * Implement virtual networks, network gateways, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, routing, and network devices * Understand the working of different storage accounts in Azure * Plan, deploy, and secure virtual machines * Deploy and manage Azure Containers * Get familiar with some common Azure usage scenarios In Detail Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure's solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively. Style and approach This step-by-step guide focuses on implementing various Azure solutions for your organization. The motive is to provide a comprehensive exposure and ensure they can implement these solutions with ease.

Have the best tools at your fingertips to extend and maximize the efficiency of your business management About This Book * Follow practical and easy-to-grasp examples, illustrations and coding to make the most out of Dynamics 365 for Operations in your business scenario * Extend Dynamics 365 for Operations in a cost-effective manner by using tools you already have * Solve common business problems with the valuable features of Dynamics 365 for Operations Who This Book Is For This book is for those who are getting to grips with Dynamics 365 for Operations developers or those migrating from C# development. The guide includes information essential for new and experienced Dynamics 365 for Operations developers. What You Will Learn * Create enumerated and extended data types * Understand the importance of using patterns and frameworks while creating a unique concept for your solution * Service and deploy your code and packages to improve performance * Write and perform unit tests to automate the testing process * Design your security model and policies to provide code access privileges * Construct the UI and business logic to add Power BI to dashboards In Detail Dynamics 365 for Operations is the ERP element of Microsoft's new Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition. Operations delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools. This book provides a collection of "recipes" to instruct you on how to create-and extend-a real-world solution using Operations. All key aspects of the new release are covered, and insights into the development language, structure, and tools are discussed in detail. New concepts and patterns that are pivotal to elegant solution designs are introduced and explained, and readers will learn how to extend various aspects of the system to enhance both the usability and capabilities of Operations. Together, this gives the reader important context regarding the new concepts and the confidence to reuse in their own solution designs. This "cookbook" provides the ingredients and methods needed to maximize the efficiency of your business management using the latest in ERP software-Dynamics 365 for Operations. Style and approach The book takes a practical recipe-based approach, focusing on real-world scenarios and giving you all the information you need to build a strong Dynamics 365 for Operations implementation.

Learn from an expert on how use self-adapting and self-healing systems within Docker. Key Features Viktor Farcic shows you all aspects in the creation of self-adapting and self-healing systems in both a practical and hands-on approach. Learn how to choose a successful solution for metrics storage and query, including InfluxDB, Nagios and Sensu, Prometheus and Graphite. Discover how to integrate Docker Flow Monitor with Docker Flow Proxy. How to apply Docker self-healing and self-adaptive to both services and infrastructure. Book DescriptionBuilding on The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit and The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to explore two new programs, self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker. The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit: Self-Sufficient Docker Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic's series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book in the series looks at Docker, the tool designed to make it easier in the creation and running of applications using containers. In this latest entry, Viktor combines theory with a hands-on approach to guide you through the process of creating self-adaptive and self-healing systems. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including what exactly self-adaptive and self-healing systems are, how to choose a solution for metrics storage and query, the creation of cluster-wide alerts and what a successful self-sufficient system blueprint looks like. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker. What you will learn Let Viktor Farcic show you all aspects in the creation of self-adapting and self-healing systems in both a practical and hands-on approach. Learn how to choose a successful solution for metrics storage and query, including InfluxDB, Nagios and Sensu, Prometheus and Graphite. Understand how to integrate Docker Flow Monitor with Docker Flow Proxy. The creation of cluster-wide alerts by creating alerts based on metrics. How to apply self-healing and self-adaptive to both services and infrastructure. Who this book is forThis book is for professionals experienced with Docker looking to create both self-adapting and self-healing systems using the software.

Over 90 recipes to maximize automated solutions and policy-drive application profiles using Cisco ACI About This Book * Confidently provision your virtual and physical infrastructure for application deployment * Integrate Cisco ACI with hypervisors and other third party devices * Packed with powerful recipes to automate your IT operations Who This Book Is For If you are a network administrator, system administrator, or engineer and are aware of the basics of Cisco ACI but want to start using it to automate your tasks, then this book is for you What You Will Learn * Master the Cisco ACI architecture * Discover the ACI fabric with easy-to-follow steps * Set up quality of service within ACI * Configure external networks with Cisco ACI * Integrate with VMware and track VMware virtual machines * Configure apply and verify access policies * Extend or migrate a VMware virtual-machine LAN inside the ACI fabric * Monitor ACI with third party tools and troubleshoot issues In Detail Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application deployments. This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build, manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC. Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that arise. By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications. Style and approach A set of exciting recipes to automate your IT operations related to datacenters, the Cloud, and networking tasks

Accelerate your enterprise search engine and bring relevancy in your search analytics Key Features A practical guide in building expertise with Indexing, Faceting, Clustering and Pagination Master the management and administration of Enterprise Search Applications and services seamlessly Handle multiple data inputs such as JSON, xml, pdf, doc, xls,ppt, csv and much more. Book DescriptionApache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands. What you will learn Design schema using schema API to access data in the database Advance querying and fine-tuning techniques for better performance Get to grips with indexing using Client API Set up a fault tolerant and highly available server with newer distributed capabilities, SolrCloud Explore Apache Tika to upload data with Solr Cell Understand different data operations that can be done while indexing Master advanced querying through Velocity Search UI, faceting and Query Re-ranking, pagination and spatial search Learn to use JavaScript, Python, SolrJ and Ruby for interacting with Solr Who this book is forThe book would rightly appeal to developers, software engineers, data engineers and database architects who are building or seeking to build enterprise-wide effective search engines for business intelligence. Prior experience of Apache Solr or Java programming is must to take the best of this book.

Implement a Java application portfolio modernization strategy that saves time, eliminates risk, and maximizes benefits With Oracle's promise to upgrade Java every 2-3 years and the compelling new features seen with each release, IT professionals must keep faster pace to stay competitive. The modernization process can be time-consuming, complicated, and unpredictable. Businesses that do not stay up-to-date with the Java platform leave themselves at risk for cyber-crime; performance issues; increased cost of application support and maintenance; and, ultimately, obsolescence. This volume provides a methodology that bridges the gap between corporate and technical concerns and enables management teams to understand technical requirements and vice versa. Designed to save you time, money, and frustration, Effective Modernization of Java Applications, A Practical Guide to Application Portfolio Management offers a practical approach to managing and updating the Java application portfolio. The book covers application portfolio management methodology, creating rapid modernization tools and accelerators including assessment and automation tools. You will learn to identify and create application portfolios, manage the application portfolios, automate the migration of Java applications to the latest Java platform, undertake large-scale migrations by utilizing concepts such as wave planning, dependency analysis, and cost estimation. Teaches how to effectively modernize Java applications in a confident and predictive mannerPresents a detailed methodology for portfolio management, application migration, and cost estimationTeaches IT professionals how to cut maintenance time and regain valuable development time

Learn to use AWS IoT services to build your connected applications with the help of this comprehensive guide. Key Features Gets you started with AWS IoT and its functionalities Learn different modules of AWS IoT with practical use cases. Learn to secure your IoT communication Book DescriptionThe Internet of Things market increased a lot in the past few years and IoT development and its adoption have showed an upward trend. Analysis and predictions say that Enterprise IoT platforms are the future of IoT. AWS IoT is currently leading the market with its wide range of device support SDKs and versatile management console. This book initially introduces you to the IoT platforms, and how it makes our IoT development easy. It then covers the complete AWS IoT Suite and how it can be used to develop secure communication between internet-connected things such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, smart applications, and so on. The book also covers the various modules of AWS: AWS Greengrass, AWS device SDKs, AWS IoT Platform, AWS Button, AWS Management consoles, AWS-related CLI, and API references, all with practical use cases. Near the end, the book supplies security-related best practices to make bi-directional communication more secure. When you've finished this book, you'll be up-and-running with the AWS IoT Suite, and building IoT projects. What you will learn Implement AWS IoT on IoT projects Learn the technical capabilities of AWS IoT and IoT devices Create IoT-based AWS IoT projects Choose IoT devices and AWS IoT platforms to use based on the kind of project you need to build Deploy AWS Greengrass and AWS Lambda Develop program for AWS IoT Button Visualize IoT AWS data Build predictive analytics using AWS IoT and AWS Machine Learning Who this book is forThis book is for anyone who wants to get started with the AWS IoT Suite and implement it with practical use cases. This book acts as an extensive guide, on completion of which you will be in a position to start building IoT projects using AWS IoT platform and using cloud services for your projects.