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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

Security management


As Azure Stack provides a variety of resources to the tenants based on the Offers, Plans, and Quotas, the question that is always there is this: how do we secure our resources?

Tagging

At first, one of the best things to provide a first level of security is to tag the resources to the corresponding customers and resource groups.

Resource manager enables you to logically organize resources by applying tags. The tags consist of key/value pairs that identify resources with properties that you define. To mark resources as belonging to the same category, apply the same tag to those resources. Tags can be applied to Resource groups or resources directly. Tags can then be used to select resources or Resource groups from the console, web portal, PowerShell, or the API.

Tags can be helpful when you need to organize resources for billing or management. Each tag you add to a resource or Resource group is automatically added to the Subscription-wide taxonomy. Each resource can have a...