Managing servers
The simplest way to migrate services into Azure is via the lift-and-shift methodology; this means that we simply copy our existing VMs into Azure as-is.
Although you don’t leverage Azure’s best features, the lift-and-shift option enables you to move into Azure in the quickest time and with the least amount of effort.
Before we perform a migration, even one just using VMs, we need to consider how we will manage and secure those VMs. Although Azure provides a range of tools to help with this, you must build and configure those services.
In this section, we’ll consider two of these features—update management and backups. Logging, security, and networking are also important; however, we cover these separately throughout this book.
Update management
One of the key aspects of maintaining servers in the cloud is keeping them up to date with the latest software updates and security patches. Azure Update Management is a service that...
