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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

The Azure portal

VNets in Azure can be managed using various tools, including the Azure portal. The fact is that, for some people, the portal is the easiest way to use Azure, as they are used to graphic tools and the UI really helps them understand what is going on or how to use a particular feature.

To create a peering (which will allow you to access a network from another network) from the portal, you can go through the following instructions:

  1. In the Settings section, you will find a Peerings blade:

Figure 3.4 – Peerings blade
  1. Initially, you should not see any available peering for your network (I am assuming that you are doing this on a new VNet). To create a new connection, click on the + Add button:

Figure 3.5 – Creating a peering
  1. In the displayed form, you will have to enter all the required information regarding the connection. Before we dig deeper into the available options, look at my configuration...