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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

Creating an event subscription

The idea here is to leverage two Azure services that allow you to implement a complete solution without writing a single line of code. To do so, follow these instructions:

  1. The gateway to automation in your resource group can be found in the Events blade, which can be found in every resource group:

Figure 2.16: Creating an event subscription

Once you get there, we can start implementing our automation workflow.

  1. When you click on the + Event Subscription button, you will see a new screen where you will be able to enter all the required details for a new event subscription. Here, you can find an example of my settings:

Figure 2.17: Creating an event subscription form

You will have to configure the following fields in order to add an event subscription:

    • Name: A unique name for a subscription.
    • Event Schema: A selected event schema supported by Azure Event Grid. Unfortunately, this topic will not be covered in this book...