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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

Configuring a naming resolutions

In Azure, you are able to create your own hosting service for DNS domains. With Azure DNS, you will able to host your domains for record management and integrate them with your VNets. In this section, we will cover two things: creating an instance of Azure DNS and configuring a VNet to use it for resolving names. 

Azure DNS is a service that is based on the Azure Resource Manager. This gives you benefits such as role-based access control (RBAC), the ability to audit all activities, and the ability to lock it so that no one can remove it without permission. This also means that you can create it using standard tools such as the Azure portal or the Azure CLI. When it comes to the CLI, the command you will be looking for will be as follows:

az network dns zone

The same can be achieved with Azure PowerShell, as shown in the following code:

New-AzDnsZone

As you can see from the preceding code, what you need here is a DNS zone, which is used...