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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

Summary

In this chapter, we expanded our knowledge of Azure Arc enabled data services to Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instances. We started by deploying the Azure Arc data controller in direct connectivity mode.

We learned about deploying a SQL Managed Instance on a Kubernetes cluster through Azure Arc and accessing the hosted database. We also looked at the management of Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instances, including monitoring, backup and restore, HA, and other aspects. The combined learnings gathered from this chapter and the previous chapter, Chapter 5, Azure Arc Enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale, will help us immensely in understanding Azure Arc enabled data services, and with the application of this knowledge in our work, we can gain expertise on SQL databases hosted on Kubernetes, eventually governing the databases through the Azure portal. Those working as cloud solution architects and cloud engineers can greatly benefit in their careers from this new technology by understanding...