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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)

Summary

As explained, the hybrid cloud is a reality for most organizations, whether it's because of regulations or investment in local infrastructure. We already covered how to migrate or extend services to the cloud, and a very important part of this is managing identities in the cloud. Data is important, but managing who can access that data is just as important. In extending local infrastructure to the cloud, we can set up a replica of the domain controller and use the Active Directory to manage identities and delegate access, but this only extends to IaaS.

To manage this with PaaS, we must use Azure Active Directory, which is often called Identity as a Service. In the next chapter, we'll discuss Azure Active Directory, how to use it, and even extend local identities to Azure Active Directory.