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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, we started talking about governance and compliance in Azure. We discovered Azure Policy – a service that’s meant to simplify the management of Azure resources by providing functionality to audit, modify, or deny deployments that do not follow defined rules. We also saw that, besides having a rich catalog of inbuilt policies, Azure offers a way to deploy a custom policy. We talked about the differences between initiatives and policies as well and looked at some examples of policies to better understand their syntax and capabilities.

Becoming fluent with Azure Policy is the key to becoming a better Azure administrator. In practically all cases, when you’re tasked with managing an Azure environment, you’ll need to use Azure Policy to help you keep cloud resources in line, ensure the compliance of deployed services, and enforce internal rules of your organization without lots of effort.

In the next chapter, we’ll talk about...