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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By : Amit Malik, Daman Kaur
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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
6
Section 2: Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
9
Section 3: Azure Arc Enabled Multi-Cloud Governance

Azure managed multi-cloud solutions

In addition to Azure Arc, various Azure services support the management and governance of other cloud platforms, such as these:

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Azure Monitor (Includes Azure Log Analytics)
  • Azure Security Center
  • Azure Sentinel
  • Azure Policy

Let's take a closer look at some of these solutions.

Azure Active Directory multi-cloud solutions

Azure Active Directory (AAD) is an authentication service that can be used by web applications as an identity provider. AAD supports authentication for AWS, GCP, Oracle, and many other cloud platforms, as long as supported federated authentication is provided. Let's look at some of the common cloud platforms that support AAD as an authentication service.

Authenticating AWS with AAD

AAD is one of the most widely used identity providers in the world. It is a very common scenario for organizations to use AWS resources while leveraging Microsoft's AAD...