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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Azure networking basics

The networking stack in Microsoft Azure is very important and is the foundation for other services, especially when we talk about IaaS. Setting up Azure networking correctly is very important, as it will be key to setting up your IaaS infrastructure and allowing your virtual machines to communicate. The networking stack in Azure is composed of two components, external and private. External is used to access service endpoints over the internet and private is used for communication between Azure services internally.

Almost all Azure services have external endpoints configured by default, but we have some special cases when we don't want to enable access over the internet. In these cases, we can disable external endpoints and set up these services to use private traffic only. This applies to PaaS as well, even though these services usually don't...