Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Toroman

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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

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By: Toroman

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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.

Preface

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Key Concepts of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing concepts

Cloud services models

Understanding the Azure subscription model

Summary

Questions

Azure Networking - Foundation of Azure IaaS

Technical requirements

Azure networking basics

Connected devices

IP address types

ARM templates

Summary

Questions

Infrastructure as a Service - the First Layer of Cloud Computing

Technical requirements

Deploying Azure Virtual Machines

Managing Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Load Balancers

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set

Summary

Questions

Azure App Service - Hosting Web Applications without a Server

Technical requirements

Azure App Service Plan and Azure Web Apps

Managing Azure Web App

Monitoring a Web App in Azure

Azure App Service Plan

Azure Web App high availability

Running Azure Web Apps in a dedicated environment

Summary

Questions

The Azure Data Platform

Technical requirements

Azure Database options

SQL Server as IaaS

SQL Server as PaaS

Other data services in Azure

Summary

Questions

Azure Storage, Backup, and Site Recovery - Moving your Data to Azure

Technical requirements

Azure Storage

Migrating a database to the cloud

Azure Recovery Service

Summary

Questions

Hybrid Cloud with Azure - Extending Local Workloads to the Cloud

Technical requirements

Hybrid clouds

Connecting the local network and Azure Virtual Network

On-premises data gateway

Azure Stack

Summary

Questions

Azure Active Directory - Identity in the Cloud

Technical requirements

The Azure Active Directory

Syncing AAD with on-premises AD

Managing AAD

Role-based access control

Summary

Questions

Azure Security and Administration

Technical requirements

Demystifying cloud security

Securing your identity

Securing the network

Encryption

Azure Security Center

Summary

Questions

Best Practices

Technical requirements

Azure best practices

Infrastructure as code

Configuration as code

Summary

Questions

Assessments

Chapter 1: Key Concepts of Cloud Computing

Chapter 2: Azure Networking – Foundation of Azure IaaS

Chapter 3: Infrastructure as a Service – the First Layer of Cloud Computing

Chapter 4: Azure App Service – Hosting Web Applications without a Server

Chapter 5: The Azure Data Platform

Chapter 6: Azure Storage, Backup, and Site Recovery – Moving your Data to Azure

Chapter 7: Hybrid Cloud with Azure – Extending Local Workloads to the Cloud

Chapter 8: Azure Active Directory – Identity in the Cloud

Chapter 9: Azure Security and Administration

Chapter 10: Best Practices

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Summary

An Azure App Service Plan is the best example of the PaaS model in Microsoft Azure. It allows us to host applications without servers and virtual machines. Even though management options are simplified and cut down to the minimum, we still have a lot of configuration options. Legacy support is next to nothing, but the PaaS model is intended for modern applications that require the latest features and frameworks. If you need to run legacy software, IaaS is the best choice.

We introduced IaaS and PaaS in Azure from the application perspective. But the application is nothing without data. In the next chapter, we'll move to Data Platform in Azure and show how to create and manage databases in the cloud.