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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
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Section 2: Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
9
Section 3: Azure Arc Enabled Multi-Cloud Governance

An overview of Azure Arc enabled servers

Azure Arc enabled servers extend the management capabilities of Azure Resource Manager tools to Windows and Linux servers running outside Azure (on-premises, AWS, GCP, or any other cloud platform). If you already are managing an Azure virtual machine (VM) in your environment, Arc enabled servers allow you to use the same tools, processes, and best practices to manage your non-Azure Windows and Linux servers as well.

You will use Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy, RBAC, Log Analytics, Security Center, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Azure Automation, various other extensions such as Custom Script Extension, and desired state configuration to manage your on-premises servers. In this chapter, we'll be exploring some of these hybrid management capabilities with Azure.

Azure Arc enabled servers are generally available; that is, they are ready for production.

Supported environments

Azure Arc is still a new service, so...