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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

Getting an overview of Azure Arc enabled data services

Azure Arc enabled data services allow you to run your favorite Azure PaaS data services on-premises, in other public clouds, or on any other infrastructure. Currently, Azure Arc enabled data services support the following data services:

  • PostgreSQL Hyperscale
  • SQL Managed Instance

If you are hosting your databases in either of these PaaS services (PostgreSQL or SQL Managed Instance), you can use the same service while keeping the data anywhere you want, on-premises or even on edge. Microsoft brings out regular updates for Arc enabled services to keep them up to date with its corresponding public cloud services.

With Arc enabled data services, you can create a new PostgreSQL Hyperscale database in seconds with your favorite tools, such as the Azure portal and Azure Data Studio.

Azure Arc enabled data services are still in preview. Preview services are not recommended for production usage. We'll look...