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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)

Managing Azure Virtual Machines

After deployment is completed, we can see four different resources have been created—Virtual machine, Disk, Network interface and Public IP address. A Public IP address is optional and doesn't need to be created if you intend to use and manage the VM only using private IP addresses with the use of VPN. If a managed disk wasn't chosen, there would be a storage account where the disk would be placed here as well, as shown:

Every one of these resources has different options for management. We have already seen options for IP addresses and NICs; we'll explore disk and storage in later chapters. For now, let us focus on the VM and what options are available to us for administration and management.

VM settings

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