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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

Visualizing results

Kusto supports a couple of different ways to visualize data stored in data tables. We’ll look at multiple examples of available functions that you can leverage in your queries. Let’s start with a description of the render function.

render function

Most visualization activities in Kusto are done using the render function. It supports a variety of different chart types that can be selected depending on the shape of your data. The most basic syntax of this function looks like the following:

VeryImportantTable
| render <chart-type>

We’ll start the description with the default visualization type – table.

Visualizing as a table

By default, results returned by Kusto queries are presented as tables. If you want to explicitly define this type, you could use the following query:

VeryImportantTable
| render table

Results rendered by this visualization type will include all columns unless they’re limited by the...