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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By : Amit Malik, Daman Kaur
Book Image

Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By: Amit Malik, Daman Kaur

Overview of this book

With all the options available for deploying infrastructure on multi-cloud platforms and on-premises comes the complexity of managing it, which is adeptly handled by Azure Arc. This book will show you how you can manage environments across platforms without having to migrate workloads from on-premises or multi-cloud to Azure every time. Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc starts with an introduction to Azure Arc and hybrid cloud computing, covering use cases and various supported topologies. You'll learn to set up Windows and Linux servers as Arc-enabled machines and get to grips with deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters with Azure Arc and GitOps. The book then demonstrates how to onboard an on-premises SQL Server infrastructure as an Arc-enabled SQL Server and deploy and manage a hyperscale PostgreSQL infrastructure on-premises through Azure Arc. Along with deployment, the book also covers security, backup, migration, and data distribution aspects. Finally, it shows you how to deploy and manage Azure's data services on your own private cloud and explore multi-cloud solutions with Azure Arc. By the end of this book, you'll have a firm understanding of Azure Arc and how it interacts with various cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and PaaS data services.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Section 1: Azure Arc Enabled Infrastructure
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Section 2: Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
9
Section 3: Azure Arc Enabled Multi-Cloud Governance

Azure Arc enabled multi-cloud solutions

Azure Arc enabled solutions can easily expand into multi-cloud architecture due to their underlying design, which allow them to run virtually anywhere as long as there's a supported OS and the Kubernetes platform. In this section, we will learn about the compatibility of Azure Arc solutions with multi-cloud architectures.

Multi-cloud server management

Azure Arc enabled servers support the organization and governance of Windows and Linux machines hosted anywhere outside Azure. This includes multiple cloud virtual machines (VMs), such as the following:

  • AWS EC2 instances
  • GCP compute instances
  • Oracle Cloud VM instances
  • IBM Cloud VM instances
  • DigitalOcean Droplets
  • Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service
  • Any other server infrastructure as long as server admin access is available

Onboarding multi-cloud server instances to Azure Arc works the exact same way that you'd onboard an on-premises machine...