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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the different billing models and how they related to our previous chapter on licensing. We talked about the two different billing models; that is, capacity and pay-as-you-use. We also looked at the usage pipeline and should now understand how Azure Stack Hub is metered. We now have an appreciation of the different meters that are available within Azure Stack Hub and how they are charged. We also know that usage data is transmitted to Azure commerce from Azure Stack Hub, and that this generates billing based on the resources that have been consumed. We know how we can view and report on this usage data from the platform based on the type of subscription that is in play for Azure Stack Hub. We also looked at what is required from a CSP to allow them to enable multi-tenancy and bill their tenants for the usage that they have consumed using the Partner Center portal.

We are now nearing the end of this book on Azure Stack Hub. In the next and final...