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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

Writing a template from scratch

Conceptually, the easiest way to generate an ARM template is to write our very own. While, initially, it is pretty easy, you will probably reconsider your approach after a while. When your infrastructure contains tens of components, maintaining a JSON file with over 1,000 lines may be really painful. Nonetheless, this is one of the options and we should cover it so that you have the full picture of all the available options.

In the following link, you can view all the resources that are managed by ARM and their references: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/microsoft.aad/allversions. Each resource belongs to a particular namespace (so if you search for Storage Account, you will go to the Storage section). ARM also maintains more than one version of its API, which is why you can select from multiple available APIs.

Since we are about to create a brand-new piece of storage, it seems like a good idea to use the most recent version. The...