Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials电子书

Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

Table of Contents

Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage Services

An introduction to Azure Storage

High availability and durability

Strong consistency

Scalability

Storage services

The Blob storage

The Table storage

The Queue storage

The File storage

Storage accounts

The namespaces and endpoints

Storage account security

Redundancy options

Metrics and logging

Summary

2. Developing Against Storage

The Service Management REST APIs

The request

The response

Microsoft Azure Management Libraries

The Storage Services REST APIs

The Blob service REST API

The Table service REST API

The Queue service REST API

The File service REST API

Azure Storage Client Libraries

Microsoft Azure Storage Client Library for .NET

Microsoft Azure Storage Client Library for Node.js

The Microsoft Azure Storage SDK for Java

The PHP Client Libraries for Azure

The Microsoft Azure SDK for Python

The Microsoft Azure SDK for Ruby

Azure Storage Emulator

PowerShell

Summary

3. Working with Blobs

Types of blobs

Block blobs

Page blobs

The blob structure

Containers

Addressing blobs

Using the Azure Storage Client Library

Creating a container

Uploading the first blob

Getting acquainted with an explorer

Downloading a blob

The container access level

Shared Access Signatures

Deleting a blob

Hierarchies

The $root container

The folder structure

Listing blobs

Paged listing and continuation tokens

Properties and metadata

Conditional headers

Blob snapshots

Summary

4. Working with Tables

The arrival of NoSQL

NoSQL

The Table storage basics

Entities

Naming rules

Using the Azure Storage Client Library

Starting with a table

Adding entities to a table

Entity Group Transactions

Updating entities

Querying the table

Continuation tokens

Summary

5. Designing Scalable and Performant Tables

Things to understand about Azure Table storage

The table's primary key

The three layer architecture

Partitions

Entity Group Transactions

Choosing between Azure Table and Azure SQL

Table design guidelines

Studying your data

Partition sizing

Querying performance

Selecting the best PartitionKey

Summary

6. Working with Queues

The need for queues

Increasing the availability and reliability

Reducing latency and avoiding IO bottlenecks

Load leveling

Passing messages between Azure web roles and worker roles

The Queue storage structure

Addressing

Naming

Service Bus Queues

Using the queue storage from .NET

Creating our first queue

Inserting a message in the queue

Handling large messages

Retrieving the next message

Getting more messages

The dequeueCount and poison messages

Peeking messages

Editing queue messages

Setting metadata for the queue

Getting the queue length and metadata

Deleting queues

Summary

7. Working with the Azure File Service

Where are Azure Files used?

The File storage structure

Using Azure Files

Using PowerShell with Azure Files

Getting familiar with Azure PowerShell

Creating a file share

Creating directories and subdirectories

Uploading the first file

Downloading a file

Listing files

Removing files

File Shares via the SMB 2.1 protocol

Persisting connections to shares

Mounting shares from Linux

File Shares via the Storage Client Library

Creating our share

Creating a directory

Uploading and downloading files

Using AzCopy

Summary

8. Transient Fault Handling and Analytics

Transient fault handling

Storage Analytics

A closer look at metrics

Transaction metrics

Capacity metrics

A closer look at logging

The log format

Analyzing the Storage Analytics data

Common practices

Summary

Index