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Azure Stack Hub Demystified

By : Richard Young
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Azure Stack Hub Demystified

By: Richard Young

Overview of this book

Azure Stack Hub is the on-premise offering from Microsoft, which provides Azure Cloud services within a customer's own data center. It provides consistent processes between on-site and the cloud, allowing developers to test locally and deploy to the cloud in exactly the same manner. Azure Stack Hub Demystified provides complete coverage of deploying, configuring, administrating, and running Microsoft Azure Stack Hub efficiently. Firstly, you will learn how to deploy Azure Stack Hub within an organization. As you progress, you'll understand configuration and the different services provided by the platform. The book also focuses on the underlying architecture and connectivity options for the modern data center. Later, you will understand various approaches to DevOps and their implementation, and learn key topics for the AZ-600 exam. By the end of this Azure book, you will have a thorough understanding of Azure Stack Hub and the services that are provided by the platform, along with the confidence and information you need to be able to pass the AZ-600 exam.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Architecture and Deployment
5
Section 2: Identity and Security
9
Section 3: Features
15
Section 4: Monitoring, Licensing, and Billing

Setting up your environment

In this section of the chapter, we will look at the development environments for authoring ARM templates and consider preparing for developing ARM templates.

For developers running Windows OSes, the standard Visual Studio and free Visual Studio Code can be used to author ARM templates. In fact, any text editor can be used to author ARM templates as the underlying structure is JSON format, as we described in the previous section.

To be able to author ARM templates within Visual Studio, a little preparation is required. To be able to author ARM templates, we need to download and install the correct tools. This is easily accomplished within Visual Studio by performing the following steps:

  • Create a new project.
  • Select Cloud.
  • Select Get Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET.
  • Click OK and then download Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET.

Once this has been successfully downloaded and installed in Visual Studio, then we are ready to begin the...