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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

Getting started with the Update Management feature

In this section, we will see the Update Management feature that helps in controlling updates and controlling the compliance of VMs. To get started, you will need a working VM. If you do not have one, you can quickly deploy one. To do so, use the following Azure CLI command:

az vm create

The same functionality is available via a PowerShell cmdlet:

New-AzureRmVM

Remember to pass all the required parameters and enter the expected VM size, then wait a few minutes for the process to complete. If you want, you can also use the Azure portal and create a VM using the step-by-step wizard:

Fig. 10.45 – Creating a VM

Once your VM is created, search for it in the Azure portal and open the main screen so that you can proceed with the instruction. Now, let's walk through the following instructions to learn how to manage updates on VMs:

  1. Update management for Azure VMs is done via the Update management blade:

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