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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 Chapter 14, we looked at Azure Log Analytics and its more detailed configuration, deployment, and integration options. We also discussed the fundamentals of the Kusto language, which is one of the most important topics when working with this Azure service. Remember that Kusto is not an easy topic – it requires lots of experience and skill to use it to your benefit. However, it’s worth spending some time learning it, as it’ll help you find necessary information quickly, especially when your infrastructure is integrated with Log Analytics workspaces using diagnostic settings.

Lessons included in this chapter should provide an additional view of Log Analytics and its place in your architecture. They should also help you gain a better understanding of monitoring in Azure in general, especially having Kusto in mind as your solution to query aggregated data.

In the last chapter of this book, we’ll take a look at Network Watcher – a native...