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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to manage resource providers and groups. We then learned how to perform deployments using ARM with templates and also learned how to implement resource locks. At the end of this chapter, we covered automatic resource group management with Azure Event Grid and implemented proper resource naming conventions.

Understanding the basics is really important as all the topics covered in this chapter will have their use in the following ones. Things such as resource locks, deployments with ARM templates, and moving resources are typical daily tasks of Azure administrators and operators. Remember that when it comes to cloud solutions, for most of the services you use, you are only paying for usage. When playing with a resource group, keep in mind that they are free of charge, regardless of whether they contain resources or not. 

In the next chapter, we will learn how to configure and manage virtual networks, which are one of the main building blocks...