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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By : Amit Malik, Daman Kaur
Book Image

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

Supported management scenarios

So far, we have learned that Azure Arc allows you to extend Azure management capabilities to non-Azure machines. Now, let's deep dive into this and learn what exactly this includes. Can you install applications remotely through Azure Arc or can you manage your server's security posture? Let's get answers to these questions by going through each supported management scenario at the time of writing:

  • Manage with Azure Policy: Azure Policy's guest configuration capabilities let you manage Windows and Linux OS configurations, such as configure audit logging, validate group policies, password policies, encryption protocols such as TLS 1.2, manage administrators, and many more.
  • Change Tracking and Inventory: Monitor your server environment state for any configuration drift and inventory your server's configurations, applications, and so on. This includes tracking changes and inventorying your Windows and Linux software...