Summary

In this chapter, we looked at two of the underlying core services of Azure Stack Hub in terms of storage and compute. We began by providing an overview of the storage feature in Azure Stack Hub and the different components that make up this feature. This introduced us to the components that underpin Azure Stack Hub Storage, including tables, queues, blobs, and disks, among others. From there, we looked at storage management and usage. This introduced us to processes such as reclaiming storage when accounts are deleted and using alerts to control how storage accounts are used to prevent workload failure. After this, we reviewed the compute component within Azure Stack Hub.

We built on top of Chapter 8, Working with Offers, Plans, and Quotas, by working with ARM templates and provided a walkthrough of the virtual machine creation process. We were introduced to the compute controller, so we should now have an understanding of how this fits into the overarching architecture...