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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)

IP address types

Once the deployment of the VM is finished, we can see the device in Connected devices under the virtual network blade. An example of what the connected device blade looks like is shown in the following screenshot. Information shown here includes the device name, type of device connected, private IP address, and subnet the device is assigned to. IP address information is related to a private IP address, one that was assigned to our VM on the VNet level and is used only for internal traffic. Note that type of device is Network interface. Every VM has a network interface card (NIC) that is used to communicate with the network and one is automatically created with your VM. A virtual machine can have more than one NIC if you need to connect to multiple subnets or make sure that the VM is available, even when one NIC fails. The number of NICs depends on VM size, it...