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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

This chapter was dedicated to Azure Load Balancer and gave you a detailed introduction to the topic of load balancing in Azure. Remember that this service is not the only Azure component that can be used for load balancing. However, as we’re focusing on low-level infrastructure and administrative tasks in general, being familiar with the basics of Azure Load Balancer is crucial to be able to effectively manage resources in Azure. The topics that were presented in this chapter (setting up Azure Load Balancer, its configuration, health probes, and load balancing rules) will come in handy when you’re setting up IaaS-based infrastructure in your projects.

This was also the last chapter of Part 2 of this book. The next chapter will begin Part 3 – Administration of Azure Virtual Machines. Everything you’ve learned so far will be extremely important in the upcoming chapters, as lots of things related to Azure VMs are rooted in their networking components...