Azure Administration Cookbook: Over 100 practical recipes to effectively administer your Azure cloud

Enhance your Azure administration and Azure DevOps skills and get up and running with networking, security, automation, and effective cost management

Key Features

• Explore a variety of administration patterns used for different cloud architectures
• Discover best practices for administering various IT systems hosted in Azure
• Administer, automate, and manage your Azure cloud environment effectively

Book Description

Microsoft Azure is one of the upcoming cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure.

Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to the management of Azure subscriptions, and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as DDoS protection, load balancing, and networking for containers. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. The last set of chapters will help you to integrate different services with Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, and Azure Logic Apps, and teach you how to manage Azure DevOps.

By the end of this Azure book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment.

What you will learn

• Explore different Azure services and understand the correlation between them
• Secure and integrate different Azure components
• Work with a variety of identity and access management (IAM) models
• Find out how to set up monitoring and logging solutions
• Build a complete skill set of Azure administration activities with Azure DevOps
• Discover efficient scaling patterns for small and large workloads

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud administrators, system administrators, and IT professionals who want to scale up their skillset and enter the world of cloud computing. IT professionals and engineers who are already familiar with the basics of the Azure services and are looking for a step-by-step guide to solving the most common Azure problems will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of cloud concepts such as IaaS, PaaS, virtualization, networking, and common Azure services is required.

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with Azure subscriptions
2. Managing Azure resources
3. Configuring and managing virtual networks
4. Identity management
5. Access management
6. Managing virtual machines
7. Advanced networking
8. Implementing storage and backup
9. High availability and disaster recovery scenarios
10. Automating administration in Azure

Kamil Mrzyglód is a skilled software developer, architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP. He is focused on delivering fast, reliable, and flexible cloud solutions based on the Microsoft Azure platform. He has spoken at multiple conferences and meetups, working on open source software (OSS) projects and driving workshops for different people and companies. Over recent years, he has developed an interest in Azure serverless architectures, data analysis, and big data components. Currently, he works at Demant Technology Center in Warsaw. His current goal is to make the world of cloud computing as accessible as it can be so that it's possible to lower the learning curve of this technology and help others start using it.