Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes and Servers

Welcome to this introductory guide to using Microsoft's Azure Arc service, a new multi-cloud management platform that belongs in every cloud or DevOps estate. As many IT pros know, servers and Azure Kubernetes Service drive a huge amount of consumption in Azureso why not extend familiar management tools proven in Azure to on-premises and other cloud networks? This practical guide will get you up to speed quickly, with instruction that treads light on the theory and heavy on the hands-on experience to make setting up Azure Arc servers and Kubernetes across multiple clouds a lot less complex.

Azure experts and MVPs Buchanan and Joyner provide just the right amount of context so you can grasp important concepts, and get right to the business of using and gaining value from Azure Arc. If your organization has resources across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and edge environments, then this book is for you. You will learn how to configure and use Azure Arc to uniformly manage workloads across all of these environments.

What You Will Learn

• Introduces the basics of hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing and how Azure Arc fits into that IT strategy

• Teaches the fundamentals of Azure Resource Manager, setting the reader up with the knowledge needed on the technology that underpins Azure Arc

• Offers insights into Azure native management tooling for managing on-premises servers and extending to other clouds
• Details an end-to-end hybrid server monitoring scenario leveraging Azure Monitor and/or Azure Sentinel that is seamlessly delivered by Azure Arc
• Defines a blueprint to achieve regulatory compliance with industry standards using Azure Arc, delivering Azure Policy from Azure Defender for Servers
• Explores how Git and GitHub integrate with Azure Arc; delves into how GitOps is used with Azure Arc

• Empowers your DevOps teams to perform tasks that typically fall under IT operations

• Dives into how to best use Azure CLI with Azure Arc

  Who This Book Is For

  DevOps, system administrators, security professionals, and IT workers responsible for servers both on-premises and in the cloud. Some experience in system administration, DevOps, containers, and use of Git/GitHub is helpful.

  Teaches how to extend the Microsoft control plane to other clouds using Azure Arc Shows how to use Azure Arc to manage across clouds, servers, and Kubernetes Explains how to bring Azure management features to your servers and Kubernetes clusters

  Autorentext
  Steve Buchanan is an enterprise cloud architect and Midwest Containers Services Lead on the Cloud Transformation/DevOps team with Avanade, the Microsoft arm of Accenture. He is an eight-time Microsoft MVP, and the author of six technical books. He has presented at tech events, including Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, and user groups. He is active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of IT on his blog at buchatech.com. Janaka Rangama is a Microsoft Azure MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is originally from Sri Lanka, known as "the pearl of the indian Ocean," and now lives in Australia, known as "the land down under." Currently a Senior Principal Product Technologist at Dell EMC Azure Stack Product Engineering Team, he is one of the leading hybrid cloud experts in the APAC region. He is a well-known speaker at many international conferences and an expertin both Microsoft and OSS technologies. He co-leads the Melbourne Azure Nights user group and is one of the founding members of the Sri Lanka IT PRO Forum. Ned Bellavance is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Founder of Ned in the Cloud LLC. As a one-man tech juggernaut, he develops video courses, runs the Day Two Cloud Podcast for Packet Pushers, and creates original content for technology vendors. He is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing that knowledge with others, whether that is through courses, speaking, blogging, or authoring books. He has presented at tech events, including Microsoft Ignite, Cloud Expo NYC, and the Midwest Management Summit (MMS). You can find his musings on the IT industry at his website at nedinthecloud.com.

  Klappentext

  Chapter 1: Azure Arc as an Extension of the Azure Control Plane.- Chapter 2: Azure Resource Manager Insights.- Chapter 3: Azure Management Insights.- Chapter 4: Azure Arc Servers: Getting Started.- Chapter 5: Azure Arc Servers: Using at Scale.- Chapter 6: Hybrid Server Monitoring Solution.- Chapter 7: Regulatory and Security Compliance for Azure Arc Servers.- Chapter 8: GitOps Insights.- Chapter 9: Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes: Getting Started.

  Zusammenfassung
  Beginning-Intermediate user level

  Inhalt

Chapter 1: Azure Arc as an Extension of the Azure Control Plane.- Chapter 2: Azure Resource Manager Insights.- Chapter 3: Azure Management Insights.- Chapter 4: Azure Arc Servers: Getting Started.- Chapter 5: Azure Arc Servers: Using at Scale.- Chapter 6: Hybrid Server Monitoring Solution.- Chapter 7: Regulatory and Security Compliance for Azure Arc Servers.- Chapter 8: GitOps Insights.- Chapter 9: Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes: Getting Started. <p