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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
Book Image

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

Azure Arc overview

As cloud, non-cloud, on-premises, and off-premises solutions continue to expand at ever-increasing rates, organizations must manage increasingly complex IT environments. Multiple clouds and environments means multiple disparate management tools and learning curves. As an additional challenge, existing tools may not adequately support such new cloud-native versions of operational models like DevOps and ITOps.

Azure Arc offers a solution to simplify the management and governance of these environments. With Azure Arc, you can deploy Azure services and extend Azure management anywhere. It is a single platform (single pane of glass) for the consistent management of multicloud, on-premises, and edge resources, each projected via Azure Arc into Azure Resource Manager (ARM). This lets you manage VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they were running in Azure, using Azure services and management tools.

The key benefits of Azure Arc are:

  • Single-pane...