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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

Azure Fundamentals

Getting started with Microsoft Azure is not an easy task. It’s a dynamic, robust, and cross-disciplinary environment that requires lots of knowledge and attention to get things done as per best practices. We’ll start our journey with a detailed explanation of the most fundamental topics that are important from the Azure administrator’s point of view.

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

  • Azure Resource Manager, including main components in relation to Azure resources
  • Entra ID for basic understanding of identity concepts in Azure
  • Authorization using RBAC and ABAC with a focus on role definitions and assignments
  • Basic toolset – the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and Cloud Shell