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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)
1
Section 1: Azure Arc Enabled Infrastructure
6
Section 2: Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
9
Section 3: Azure Arc Enabled Multi-Cloud Governance

Chapter 1: Azure Arc Overview

In this chapter, we'll introduce you to Azure Arc, which is Microsoft's latest play in the hybrid cloud computing market. We'll start with covering what Azure Arc is and what it isn't. We will talk about various services available under the Azure Arc umbrella and use cases.

We can apply the knowledge gathered from this chapter to the customer environment for modernizing on-premises architectures and governing the infrastructure via the Azure portal.

Additionally, to progress ahead in their career, specialists and administrators can benefit from this knowledge and the smooth transition in learning about the Microsoft Azure cloud and the vast spectrum of features it provides. This will provide you with an enriching learning curve as you explore the only service offering that brings together on-premises infrastructure and hybrid cloud in combination with infrastructure, data, and microservices architecture.

By the end of this chapter, we will have set a basis for further chapters by building the prerequisite lab infrastructure.

We'll be covering the following topics:

  • What is Azure Arc?
  • Introducing Azure Arc use cases
  • Understanding Azure Arc
  • Exploring Azure Arc services
  • Building the lab prerequisite for Azure Arc
  • Pricing