Migrating to Azure: Transforming Legacy Applications into Scalable Cloud-First Solutions

Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.

Join Microsoft MVP Josh Garverick as he addresses all major areas of design and implementation―application, infrastructure, data, security, and deployment―while leveraging the power and tools of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to bring DevOps to the forefront.

With an emphasis on principles and best practices of enterprise design, you will discover how to recognize existing patterns within the legacy platform and to identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and candidates for automation.

What You’ll Learn

• Accurately and completely capture baseline information about a legacy system
• Leverage enterprise patterns for constructing next-generation platforms in the cloud
• Design, plan, and implement deployment pipelines to enable continuous delivery
• Identify and implement cloud-based platform components to reduce total cost of ownership
• Understand testing and validation: iterative component authoring, monitoring, deployment, and performance
• Price and perform capacity planning for cloud-based infrastructure and workloads

Who This Book Is For

Enterprise architects and IT professionals who are required to keep legacy applications relevant in today’s cloud-first world

Table of Contents

Part I: Assessing the Legacy
Chapter 1: The Baseline
Chapter 2: Domain Architectures
Chapter 3: Security and Compliance
Chapter 4: Operating Models

Part II: Planning for the Future
Chapter 5: The Wireframe
Chapter 6: Capacity Planning
Chapter 7: Performance Considerations
Chapter 8: The Target

Part III: Bringing it to the Cloud
Chapter 9: Transition Architectures
Chapter 10: Development Concepts
Chapter 11: Deployment Pipelines
Chapter 12: Operations and Site Reliability