Summary
In this chapter, we learned about the importance of security, especially on the public cloud, and introduced some of the basic terminology and concepts you should be familiar with, such as the principle of least privilege and RBAC. Next, we introduced the concepts of identity management with AAD, explained the differences between security principals, users, groups, and service principals, and the different levels of access, such as the management plane versus the data plane.
Next, we demonstrated how to restrict access to your ADX cluster using virtual networks and subnet delegation.
Finally, we introduced NSGs and explained how to use them to filter inbound traffic. Then, we demonstrated how to route inbound traffic from your public IP.
In the next chapter, you will discover how to troubleshoot performance issues with queries and learn about the best practices for writing queries and managing your clusters.