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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

Using the Azure Import/Export service

When deciding to migrate data to or from Azure, you always need to consider the volume of files you need to import or export. While incoming traffic (inbound) is free in Azure, outbound connectivity is not. This means that transferring large volumes of data from an Azure data center may be a costly operation unless it’s planned accordingly.

Important note

The price for each GB of data downloaded from an Azure data center depends on various factors. See the following documentation for a better understanding of the topic: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/.

Besides pricing, migrating large volumes of data gives us one more thing to consider – the time needed to complete an operation. If we’re talking about transferring hundreds of terabytes or even petabytes, you need to ensure that your network can handle the load in an acceptable time. As you’re not always in charge of the network infrastructure...