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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 6: Azure Arc Enabled SQL Managed Instance

In this chapter, we will be learning about Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instance. This service allows you to run Azure's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) database server—Azure SQL Managed Instance—in your own infrastructure. It is a part of the Azure Arc enabled data services umbrella, which was explained in the previous chapter. It is recommended that you go through Chapter 5, Azure Arc Enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale, before proceeding with this chapter to gain a fundamental understanding of Azure Arc enabled data services.

During the course of the chapter, we will gain a good understanding of deploying an Azure Arc data controller in direct mode, followed by deploying an Azure SQL Managed Instance, which will eventually be onboarded to Azure Arc and governed with the help of monitoring tools such as Kibana and Grafana. Toward the end of the chapter, we will be looking at Always On availability groups in Azure Arc...