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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

Understanding your case – low or no bandwidth

Before we get started, we have to understand your case. Take a moment to answer the following questions:

  • Is a dedicated connection something you would consider? If so, is your ISP ready to provide one?
  • Is the cost something you are considering? If not, implementing data transfer in an old-fashioned way may be a better option as it is something you already know and understand.
  • How critical are your workloads? The more important the data is, the more reliable the way of migrating should be.
  • How quickly do you want your workloads transferred to the cloud? Offline methods are not always the quickest ones as they require you to order hardware and copy data to it before transporting it to the data center of your choice.

Once the preceding questions are answered, we can focus on finding the right solution for your problem. As in this section, we are considering cases where you have no or very low network bandwidth; we will not consider things...