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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

Introducing Azure Arc enabled SQL Server

Azure Arc enabled SQL Server extends Azure Arc enabled servers' capabilities to Microsoft SQL Server instances hosted on-premises or any other cloud platforms. Azure Arc enabled SQL Server can be secured using Azure SQL advanced data security capabilities, which are the same capabilities available for Microsoft's PaaS SQL DB offering known as Azure SQL Database.

Azure Arc manages SQL Server using the same connected machine agent used for Azure Arc enabled servers management scenarios for its operations, thus it is part of the Azure Arc enabled servers umbrella.

Azure Arc enabled SQL Server is still in preview. Preview services are not recommended for production usage.

Supported environments

Azure Arc enabled SQL Server supports Microsoft SQL Server software running on both Windows and Linux. Since it requires the same connected machine agent used for Azure Arc enabled servers for its functionality, your server must...