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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
Access Management

Whether you are an Azure administrator, a developer, an IT pro, or an architect, you always want to make your provisioned resources secure. This is a common problem for multiple environments – how to manage access from a single place using common policies and defined roles. In this chapter, we will focus on solving access management problems, including custom roles, RBAC, SAS tokens, and MSI. You will also learn how to secure and define access for popular Azure services such as Azure App Services.

In this chapter, we will begin by creating a custom role and then configure access to Azure resources and configure MSI. The next step will be learning how to use and revoke Shared Access Policies, along with generating SAS tokens for different services.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a custom role
  • Configuring access...