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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Azure Files as the second service available in Azure Storage that we planned to cover in this book. We talked about concepts such as sharing files using this service and discussed the differences between direct mounts and advanced infrastructure while leveraging Azure File Sync for caching and improving the performance of the whole setup. We also tried to improve the reliability and security of the data that’s stored in deployed file shares using snapshots and the soft delete feature.

Everything you learned in this chapter will help you build file shares in the cloud that can be utilized in scenarios where you want to transform your on-premises infrastructure into modern cloud-based components. This is a common task for Azure administrators that is performed in many companies nowadays.

The next chapter will mark the end of Part 4 of this book, Azure Storage for Administrators. We’ll cover more details related to security...