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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By : Amit Malik, Daman Kaur
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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By: Amit Malik, Daman Kaur

Overview of this book

With all the options available for deploying infrastructure on multi-cloud platforms and on-premises comes the complexity of managing it, which is adeptly handled by Azure Arc. This book will show you how you can manage environments across platforms without having to migrate workloads from on-premises or multi-cloud to Azure every time. Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc starts with an introduction to Azure Arc and hybrid cloud computing, covering use cases and various supported topologies. You'll learn to set up Windows and Linux servers as Arc-enabled machines and get to grips with deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters with Azure Arc and GitOps. The book then demonstrates how to onboard an on-premises SQL Server infrastructure as an Arc-enabled SQL Server and deploy and manage a hyperscale PostgreSQL infrastructure on-premises through Azure Arc. Along with deployment, the book also covers security, backup, migration, and data distribution aspects. Finally, it shows you how to deploy and manage Azure's data services on your own private cloud and explore multi-cloud solutions with Azure Arc. By the end of this book, you'll have a firm understanding of Azure Arc and how it interacts with various cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and PaaS data services.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Arc Enabled Infrastructure
6
Section 2: Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
9
Section 3: Azure Arc Enabled Multi-Cloud Governance

Chapter 2: Azure Arc Enabled Servers

In this chapter, we'll deep dive into the hybrid management capabilities of Azure Arc for Windows Server and Linux Server. We will discuss Azure Arc's Connected Machine agent and how it communicates with Azure Arc Server. We'll also learn about how we can manage onboard servers to Azure Arc.

Then, we will look at a few examples showcasing how Azure Arc manages Windows and Linux machines and goes behind the scenes with the help of use cases and scenarios. Progressing toward the end of this chapter, we shall have a good understanding of what Azure Arc enabled servers are and how can we utilize the potential of this feature in our environments.

We will be covering the following topics:

  • An overview of Azure Arc enabled servers
  • Supported management scenarios
  • Understanding how Azure Arc works
  • Preparing on-premises machines for Azure Arc enabled servers
  • Onboarding Windows and Linux machines to Azure Arc
  • ...