In this fully updated and new edition, you’ll get hands-on practice with the basics, including setting up cloud-based virtual machines, deploying web servers, and using hosted data stores. As you work through the book’s 21 carefully planned lessons, you’ll explore big-picture concerns like security, scaling, and automation.   Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition teaches you the most important skills you’ll need to write, deploy, and run cloud-based applications in Azure.   Key Features ·   Understand Azure beyond point-and-click processes ·   Getting started, from your first login ·   Writing and deploying web servers ·   Securing your applications and dana ·   Automating your environment   Readers should be able to write and deploy simple web or client/server applications.   About the technology With hundreds of features and prebuilt services, the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is vast and powerful. To get started, you need a trustworthy guide. In this hands-on book, Microsoft engineer and Azure trainer Iain Foulds focuses on the core skills you need to create and maintain cloud-based applications.   Iain Foulds is an engineer and senior content developer with Microsoft.