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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

Subscription locks

Each lock is a separate resource and is available on either a subscription, resource group, or a resource level. In this section, we will cover working with them using Azure portal, but under the hood, locks are just Azure resources that are accessible via the ARM API. If you want to create a lock, follow these steps:

  1. If you go to your subscription, you can find the Resource locks blade in the Settings section:

Figure 2.10: Resource locks blade
  1. From the new screen, you can click on the + Add button, where you will able to enter the lock's properties:

Figure 2.11: Creating a lock form

Adding a lock requires that you provide the following information:

    • Lock name: The unique lock name across the given scope
    • Lock type: Determines the behavior of a lock
    • Notes: Optional notes

Once you click the OK button, a lock will be applied on the subscription level and a specific action (changes/deletion) will become forbidden.

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