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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

Overview of this book

Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the logical progression of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true hybrid cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Azure Stack and the cloud-first approach. Starting with an introduction to the architecture of Azure Stack, the book will help you plan and deploy your Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the network and storage options in Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate public cloud using the third-party resource provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of the end-to-end process of designing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Azure Active Directory


Azure Active Directory (AAD) is a multi-tenant Active Directory service developed by Microsoft and provided via Microsoft public Azure:

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/media/hybrid-id-design-considerations/hybridid-example.png

The goal of AAD is to have one single cloud-based identity management solution that provides Single Sign On (SSO) features for every cloud service that is being consumed. Mainly, Azure AD provides the following capabilities:

  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Self-service password and group management
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Privileged account management
  • Application usage monitoring
  • Security auditing, monitoring, and alerting

One of the most interesting design goals is that by default, each directory's information is being saved three times, which means that two copies of all directory data exist in different Azure regions spread all around the world. This provides a highly available and scalable directory service compared...