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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Configuration as code

IaC is only the first step in automation. After we deploy our servers with code, we still need to configure them. Configuring servers manually will probably take more time than deploying them. Luckily, there is the option for configuration as code to complete the configuration steps as well. There are many different tools for configuration, but we are going to explore Azure Automation as the Azure-native configuration as code tool.

Azure Automation can be used for automating and scheduling different tasks. When talking about configuration as code, Azure Automation uses DSC. DSC is a declarative management platform in PowerShell, used for the configuration, deployment, and management of systems.

Apply DSC with Azure Automation

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