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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

Automating resource group management with Azure Event Grid

Automation is one of the most important features available and is especially helpful when you're managing large workloads and have tens of systems under your control. This is especially true when the scale of your systems growths when you have thousands of VMs under your control, doing everything manually becomes almost impossible. Fortunately, you do not have to be an Azure specialist to implement advanced workflows, which will help you understand what is happening with a particular resource group and all the resources it contains.

In this section, we'll learn how to organize a simple automation solution using Azure Event Grid and Azure Logic Apps, which will help you understand the concept and get you started with your own ideas.

Since Event Grid and Logic Apps are serverless services, infrastructure management is no longer your concern the only thing you have to do is configure a service according...