Microsoft has published a series of articles on the subject: Cloud Platform Integration Framework. The Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) provides an enterprise or cloud service provider architect patterns that helps bridge the gaps between infrastructure and workloads by providing guidance to application and workload teams for integrating with the Microsoft cloud platform.
The framework presents a number of best-practices patterns that:
- Focus on enabling hybrid cloud solutions
- Provide a lightweight framework for cloud integration which is application across diverse workloads
- Surface practical examples of Azure design patterns
- Minimize the need for customer development
The following Cloud Platform Integration Framework Overview and Patterns are available:
- Cloud Platform Integration Framework – Overview
- Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Hybrid Networking
- Modern Datacenter Architectural Patterns-Azure Search Tier
- Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Multi-Site Data Tier
- Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns – Offsite Batch Processing Tier
- Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Global Load Balanced Web Tier
Microsoft also provides a way to download the Cloud Platform Integration Framework for offline viewing