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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

Preparing the lab infrastructure and tools

In the last chapter, we deployed an Azure Arc data controller in indirect mode. In this chapter, we will be deploying it in direct mode so that you can learn and identify differences between both connectivity modes through hands-on exercises. To avoid duplication, you will see many sections and instructions being referenced to previous chapters.

Please refer to Chapter 5, Azure Arc Enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale, and go to the Preparing the lab infrastructure and tools section to complete following the lab infrastructure setup:

  • Install the Azure CLI and the Kubernetes CLI
  • Deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Install Azure Data Studio and the Azure Data CLI (azdata)

Once your base lab infrastructure is ready, we will proceed with onboarding a Kubernetes cluster to Azure Arc.