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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Introduction to Docker

Docker (https://www.docker.com) is an open source containerization platform that packages an app’s code into the standardized unit of compute that we looked at in the previous sections of this chapter. Docker, being an open standard, runs on all major OS types, any infrastructure, and any cloud platform.

The two core components of the Docker platform are as follows:

  • Docker Engine: This is a runtime environment that is lightweight, secure, and can run on Windows-based OSs, Linux, and macOS
  • Docker Client: This is the command-line interface (CLI) for the engine and runs on the host computer

Docker can be installed on Windows Server using package management. The PowerShell PackageManagement module is available in Windows Server 2019 and later.

Docker can also be installed using the PowerShell DockerMicrosoftProvider module.

We will learn how to install Docker in the Hands-on exercises section of this chapter.

In this section...