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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 the details

You must be wondering how Azure Monitor manages to do this. In fact, under the hood, Azure Monitor uses a set of extensions that are installed on your machine once Insights has been enabled:

Figure 9.6 – Extensions installed by Azure Monitor

They allow for different monitoring capabilities such as network monitoring, forwarding OS events and logs, and crash dumps collection. If you go to the network map of your machine, you will see that there are plenty of different connections being established from your machine that pass information to Azure Storage and Azure Monitor:

Figure 9.7 – Diagram based on data gathered by Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is one of the most important services available on Azure and allows you to monitor your IaaS workloads. It combines monitoring VMs, VNets, and the OS itself to give you a bigger picture of your system. Using Azure Monitor and its workspaces require some experience as this feature does not give you all the...