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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

Backing up your storage account data

The easiest way to back up Azure Storage is to copy the data from one account to another. Let's consider the following scenarios:

  • Do you want to immediately restore your account in any region? If so, this section is for you.
  • Do you only want to secure your data in case of catastrophic failure? If so, use GRS models for Azure storage accounts.
  • Is it acceptable to only have access to a read-only copy of your primary data? If so, RA-GRS is something you'll want, without the need for additional backup.
  • Do you want to secure your LRS accounts in case of accidental deletion or malicious activity? If so, continue reading.

Once you understand your scenario, we can focus on implementing a proper backup strategy. This is something you will have to implement on your own, so decide on the following:

  • How often a backup should be made
  • What data should be copied
  • How to ensure backup correctness

The preceding questions are quite difficult to both answer...