Microsoft Azure in Action

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Lars Klint
Foreword by Scott Guthrie
  • October 2025
  • ISBN 9781617299650
  • 368 pages
  • printed in black & white
print book available Oct 31, 2025
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Unlock the full power of Microsoft Azure for creating, deploying, and managing applications.

Through developer-friendly language and hands-on examples, Microsoft Azure in Action teaches you how to quickly master the core principles of cloud computing and start creating Azure-powered apps and architectures.

In Microsoft Azure in Action you will learn how to:

  • Design and deploy high-performing cloud applications
  • Store, manage, and retrieve data at scale
  • Take command with PowerShell and the Azure CLI
  • Configure blob storage, launch VMs, and run serverless workloads
  • Protect your infrastructure with Azure’s built-in security features
  • Fine-tune performance for services like App Services and virtual machines

Microsoft Azure in Action is your fast-track guide to building and managing applications on Microsoft’s industry-leading cloud platform. You’ll explore the foundational pillars of Azure—compute, networking, and storage—that power everything on the platform. Packed with hands-on examples, clear guidance, and a touch of wit, this book makes learning Azure both practical and genuinely enjoyable.

about the technology

Microsoft Azure is a massive cloud platform offering everything from basic compute and storage to enterprise infrastructure and on-demand AI. This book helps you navigate Azure, with the hands-on advice and examples you need to create, deploy, and manage business applications of any scale.

about the book

Learn what’s in Microsoft Azure in Action and you’ll be on a path to Azure mastery. It is packed with real-world scenarios including setting up serverless architectures, using Azure’s powerful AI models, providing self-service developer infrastructure, and even creating on the-fly applications. Whether you’re taking on infrastructure optimization, security, performance enhancement, or application architecture decisions, author Lars Klint’s light touch keeps dry technical details from becoming boring.

what's inside

  • Command-line control with PowerShell and Azure CLI
  • Manage blob storage, VMs, and serverless apps
  • Infrastructure security
  • Optimize performance

about the reader

For software developers. Assumes familiarity with a scripting language like PowerShell.

about the author

Lars Klint is a Microsoft MVP, trainer, community leader, Azure expert, Lego aficionado, and classic car collector.

A great roadmap to navigating the cloud with confidence and purpose.

From the Foreword by Scott Guthrie

Brings all of the complexities and intricacies of Azure into comprehensible focus.

Orin Thomas, Microsoft

As authoritative and expert as it is friendly and encouraging to newcomers.

Martin Dimovski, ABN AMRO NL

Build, secure, and scale applications with a bunch of laughs along the way.

Jeremy Morgan, KodeKloud

Practical and refreshingly entertaining.

Gerald Versluis, Microsoft
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