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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

Considering various options for automation

Azure Storage, as a generic solution for building solutions that need scalable and reliable storage, can be easily automated using either native or external tools. In this section, we’ll talk about scenarios that could possibly be automated and how to approach this. Let’s start with managing data stored in Blob Service.

Automated cleanup of data

One of the biggest challenges when working with data-based infrastructure is providing a way to automatically clean up data that is no longer needed. This is often a requirement in systems that must follow legal requirements regarding how long users’ data is stored. In Azure Storage, if you choose to use Blob Storage as your storage service, you can leverage life cycle management, which will help you move files between tiers (hot -> cool -> archive) and delete them after a certain period of inactivity.

SAS token handling

If you decide to use SAS tokens as your...