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Learn Azure Administration

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Learn Azure Administration

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the upcoming cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure. Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to the management of Azure subscriptions, and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as DDoS protection, load balancing, and networking for containers. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. The last set of chapters will help you to integrate different services with Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, and Azure Logic Apps, and teach you how to manage Azure DevOps. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding the Basics
5
Section 2: Identity and Access Management
9
Section 3: Advanced Topics

Enabling VNets for ACI

If you have your applications packed as a container and do not want to maintain the infrastructure, you can use ACI. This Azure service allows you to host your containers without the need to handle things such as proper VM configuration, installing hosts, and ensuring proper resources. By default, those deployed containers are hosted inside a public network and there is no native possibility to secure them without implementing logic directly in the application. In this section, you will learn how to deploy ACI to a VNet, which will give you additional features.

To get ready, you will need an instance of the ACI service. There are multiple ways to get it—using either the portal or the Azure CLI:

$ az container create

If you have not had a chance to deploy this service previously, I strongly recommend trying it from the portal first and reading the following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/container-registry-intro. The command...