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

Always On availability groups in Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instance

Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instances support the deployment of SQL databases in Always On availability group mode to provide better protection and performance by having extra replicas of your database service.

Currently, it is only possible to create a SQL Managed Instance with Always On deployment mode using the azdata CLI. In order to deploy a SQL Managed Instance in Always On availability mode, you can run the following command for provisioning. You can customize the number of replicas as per your desired availability configuration:

azdata arc sql mi create -n <name of instance> --replicas 3

Please refer to the following documentation to learn more about SQL Always On availability groups:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/always-on-availability-groups-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15#:~:text=The%20Always%20On%20availability%20groups,user...