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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

Querying data

Being able to query data stored within your monitoring solution is one of the most important scenarios that you could leverage. In Azure Monitor (and specifically in Log Analytics workspaces), queries are written in a language called Kusto. This language may look like the syntax of SQL but is crafted specifically to integrate with data volumes and structure supported by Azure Monitor. Let’s start learning it by discussing its basic syntax.

The basic syntax of Kusto

Each query written in Kusto requires a data source, which will be used to query data. This data source (table) contains data that is already preprocessed and can be queried without additional actions on your side. Let’s cover the following example:

VeryImportantTable
| where TimeStamp between (datetime(2022-01-01) .. datetime(2023-12-31))
| sort by ProjectName asc

The preceding query can be read as follows:

  1. Select VeryImportantTable as the data source.
  2. Filter the data using...