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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

Azure Files and Azure File Sync

In Chapter 9, we started talking about Azure Storage by exploring Blob Storage as a generic storage solution for files. We also mentioned that Azure Storage offers additional capabilities by exposing various endpoints not only for blob management but tables, queues, and file shares as well. In this chapter, we’re going to discover various features of File Service, which can easily be used as a replacement for common on-premises setups.

Upon completing this chapter, you’ll be able to successfully configure and manage File Service. You’ll also be able to automatically synchronize data stored within that service. In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Managing Azure Files (File Service)
  • File share snapshots
  • Azure File Sync