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Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Book Image

Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Complete with the latest advancements in Azure services, this second edition of Learn Azure Administration is a comprehensive guide to scaling your cloud administration skills, offering an updated exploration of Azure fundamentals and delving into the intricacies of Azure Resource Manager and Azure Active Directory. Starting with infrastructure as code (IaC) basics, this book guides you through the seamless migration to Azure Bicep and ARM templates. From Azure virtual networks planning to deployment, you’ll get to grips with the complexities of Azure Load Balancer, virtual machines, and configuring essential virtual machine extensions. You'll handle the identity and security for users with the Microsoft Entra ID and centralize access using policies and defined roles. Further chapters strengthen your grasp of Azure Storage security, supplemented by an overview of tools such as Network Watcher. By the end of the book, you’ll have a holistic grasp of Azure administration principles to tackle contemporary challenges and expand your proficiency to administer your Azure-based cloud environment using various tools like Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and infrastructure as code.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Azure for Azure Administrators
4
Part 2: Networking for Azure Administrator
7
Part 3: Administration of Azure Virtual Machines
12
Part 4: Azure Storage for Administrators
16
Part 5: Governance and Monitoring

Using Azure Backup Server

Until now, we discussed backup capabilities in Azure using managed resources. This path allows us to secure workloads that work natively in Azure (that is, Azure VMs; Azure SQL runs as SQL Server on Azure VM; Azure Files storage), but in scenarios where we have non-native resources, we need to seek another solution. This is where Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) comes into play.

Using Azure Backup Server is a more advanced operation as it involves installing additional software and managing it by ourselves (as opposed to using Azure Recovery Services vaults integrated with managed workloads). In general, this approach can be used for the following services:

  • VMs managed by Hyper-V
  • VMs managed by VMware
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SharePoint Server
  • Microsoft Exchange

As you can see, those workloads are mostly connected to services running on-premises in many common setups available in lots of projects. For some...