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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

Implementing proper resource naming conventions

Becoming an Azure administrator means governing tens of hundreds of cloud resources. To be really productive here, you have to find a way to quickly find what you are looking for, without having to check the documentation or ask other people where a resource can be found. The real ace in the hole here is to find the naming convention that covers multiple projects and allows you to cover different domains of the business. In this section, we will discuss the different options that are available and what can be done to constrain them.

To get started, you have to understand why having a proper naming convention is crucial for many projects and administering them:

  • You may have difficulty changing the name of a resource once it is provisioned.
  • Once a naming convention is established, it is easy to find services that do not follow it.
  • When a proper name is used, you can quickly understand its purpose, without the need to enter an extra command...