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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

The availability of Azure VMs

When working with VMs, you’ll face various scenarios:

  • Deploying a single machine
  • Deploying multiple machines as separate hosts
  • Deploying multiple machines as connected hosts

Depending on your scenario, different approaches will be needed to achieve what you need. For example, up until now, we deployed multiple VMs, which were mostly unrelated hosts. This is the simplest scenario from a deployment point of view, but gives us no real resiliency. It’s time to learn how to achieve HA in Microsoft Azure when deploying IaaS components. Learning about that topic will help in real-world scenarios, which very often require improved availability of your infrastructure due to business requirements.

Availability sets

Each deployed VM in Azure has specific hardware powering its capabilities. In other words, anytime you deploy something in Azure, the data center will select the proper placement for it in terms of physical location...