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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

Preparing on-premises machines for Azure Arc enabled SQL Server

This book is designed to be a blend of knowledge and being hands-on, that is, you will see a lot of implementation steps and example deployments. In order to prepare for that, please follow the steps from Chapter 1, Azure Arc Overview, to prepare your Azure accounts in advance.

In this section, we'll create the required Azure infrastructure to simulate the on-prem (on-premises) environments for Azure Arc enabled SQL servers. If you have an on-prem infrastructure, you may use that as well, rather than hosting everything in Azure.

Creating a SQL Server VM in Hyper-V

We will be creating a virtual machine on the Hyper-V server created in Chapter 1, Azure Arc Overview. This VM will be used later in this chapter to onboard to Azure Arc.

For this demonstration, we will create a single VM on a Hyper-V host running the Windows OS and SQL Server 2019 on top of it. Deploying a nested VM in the Hyper-V server...