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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

Configuring Virtual Machine Extensions

After learning about Azure Virtual Machines, it’s time to see how one can extend their capabilities by installing additional extensions and plugins. In Azure, you can quite easily add a service or a component to any deployed instances of Azure Virtual Machines – the only requirement is to do so according to the platform’s requirements.

Basic knowledge of setting up and configuring extensions for Azure Virtual Machines will come in handy when deploying additional components used, for example, for monitoring or auditing your infrastructure.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • How to use virtual machine extensions
  • How to implement a Custom Script Extension
  • What is the Desired State Configuration (DSC)?