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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

Managing Azure Files (File Service)

Azure Files (often called File Service or File Storage) is a managed solution that’s part of Azure Storage. While Blob Storage, as described in Chapter 9, enables us to store various files, configure their life cycles, and replicate them accordingly, Azure Files is meant as an enterprise-grade file share solution that can be integrated with the end user machine as a replacement for on-premises shares. Such an approach allows you to simplify infrastructure setup and lower the cost of operations as you no longer need to manage infrastructure yourself.

Let’s start our journey with Azure Files by describing possible access protocols.

Available access protocols

As Azure Files is a cloud-based file share, to be useful as a replacement for on-premises components, it needs to support a similar set of common protocols that are used in file-sharing scenarios. For now, this service supports the following access methods:

  • Server...