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Learn Azure Administration

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Learn Azure Administration

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the upcoming cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure. Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to the management of Azure subscriptions, and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as DDoS protection, load balancing, and networking for containers. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. The last set of chapters will help you to integrate different services with Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, and Azure Logic Apps, and teach you how to manage Azure DevOps. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding the Basics
5
Section 2: Identity and Access Management
9
Section 3: Advanced Topics

Understanding Azure Front Door

Before we dive into this topic, you have to understand what Azure Front Door really is. When it comes to supported OSI levels, we can separate Azure services like this:

  • Level 4 (Azure Load Balancer)
  • Level 7 (Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, Azure Traffic Manager)

Now, depending on your needs, you may require a different set of functionalities:

  • If you need SSL offloading, you have to operate at the application level (level 7). Load Balancer will not offer you this kind of feature.
  • If you need to be as close to the network layer as possible, you will have to choose level 4 services (so in the case of Azure, Azure Load Balancer).
  • If you want to perform URL routing, once again, you will have to address this problem with level 7 services. Use Azure Application Gateway or Azure Front Door to achieve what you need.
Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is using multiple services at once – you may want to initially route requests...