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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

Using virtual machine extensions

Once your virtual machine is deployed, it’s ready to be used and configured. In many scenarios, you don’t need to do anything besides installing some basic software needed by your services. However, there are use cases where you need a certain functionality for your virtual machine – this can be implemented in various ways, but very often, the easiest path is by using an extension.

Azure offers a couple of predefined extensions available for most virtual machines. However, availability depends on a couple of factors:

  • Region
  • Operating system
  • Additional capabilities of the virtual machine

The easiest way to learn what is available for your setup is to run the following command in the Azure CLI:

az vm extension image list --location <location> --output table

This command will return a list of available extensions per given location. It’ll also include additional information, such as the name...