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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned all about the Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes server, all the supported management scenarios, and how it operates under the hood with the help of agents, each assigned with a specific task. Later, in the lab scenario, we onboarded the Kubernetes cluster to Azure Arc and assigned different policy definitions. We also touched on continuous deployment with the help of GitOps.

When applied, this knowledge of continuous deployments with the help of GitHub will immensely increase and help in bringing agility to our product life cycle.

After finding out about Kubernetes and its onboarding journey on Azure Arc, we will now study how data services are onboarded. Hence, in the next chapter, we will find out about Azure Arc enabled SQL Server and get in-depth knowledge about the functionalities Azure Arc has to offer with respect to SQL Server.