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

Onboarding SQL Server instances to Azure Arc

Onboarding SQL servers to Azure Arc is similar to Azure Arc enabled servers, covered in Chapter 2, Azure Arc Enabled Servers. The Azure portal provides an onboarding script that can be used to onboard an individual server or multiple servers in an unattended fashion.

Please refer to Chapter 2, Azure Arc Enabled Servers, the Onboard Windows and Linux machines section, to learn more about the onboarding of Windows or Linux servers hosting SQL server to Azure Arc.

Let's take a look at how you can get an Azure Arc enabled SQL Server onboarding script from the Azure portal.

Generate a SQL onboarding script using the Azure portal

In this section, we will use the Azure portal to generate the onboarding script. You need to take the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal at the following link: https://portal.azure.com.
  2. Search for Arc and select SQL Server - Azure Arc as shown in the following screenshot:

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