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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

Understanding the DevOps ecosystem

In this section, we are going to look at the ecosystem offered by Microsoft to support DevOps with Azure Stack Hub.

Microsoft offer a myriad tools and processes, both from their own brand but also from multiple partners, which cover the full range of DevOps activities, from development through deployment, to monitoring in production.

If we begin with development from the developer's workstation, then Microsoft provides Visual Studio for writing the code and Azure DevOps Server for their source control, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 6.10 – Microsoft development tools

Azure DevOps Server was previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS) and is a set of collaborative software development tools, hosted on-premises. It integrates with an existing integrated development environment (IDE) or editors such as Visual Studio.

This environment is familiar to developers who already write applications...