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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

Configuring access tiers in Blob Storage

Blob Storage is a service that you can use to store any data, meaning there are not many various parameters that refer to the uploaded files in terms of their structure or characteristics. However, there are a few different use cases that can be covered by this service:

  • Generic storage for applications
  • Storage for backup files
  • Storage for archived files
  • Storage for logs

Note that some of those scenarios may expect different performance tiers as the way uploaded files are modified and used will be different. For instance, let’s say you’re using Azure Storage for storing backup files. Backups are files that in most cases are quite big, but what’s more important is that most of the time, you just upload them and rarely use them. It’s a perfect example of a storage solution called cold storage. With Azure Storage, you can develop a solution that can be treated as either hot or cold storage....