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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

That’s all for Chapter 3! We discussed lots of different things, including fundamental topics when planning and structuring networks and resizing, deploying, and securing them using native services. Those topics will enhance your skills when working with networking in Azure and simplify learning more advanced concepts. After this chapter, you should be able to build your own networks, secure them using NSGs, and integrate them using peerings. You also learned some basics of routing and using endpoints in Azure for improved security when using managed Azure resources. You’ll improve your knowledge in the next chapters when we leverage concepts from this chapter into real-world scenarios.

In Chapter 4, you’ll learn about Azure Load Balancer, which is an important component of many Azure architectures, as it allows for distributing traffic between multiple VMs and services. This will also enable us to talk about scale sets and availability sets used for...