Azure Arc overview

As cloud, non-cloud, on-premises, and off-premises solutions continue to expand at ever-increasing rates, organizations must manage increasingly complex IT environments. Multiple clouds and environments means multiple disparate management tools and learning curves. As an additional challenge, existing tools may not adequately support such new cloud-native versions of operational models like DevOps and ITOps.

Azure Arc offers a solution to simplify the management and governance of these environments. With Azure Arc, you can deploy Azure services and extend Azure management anywhere. It is a single platform (single pane of glass) for the consistent management of multicloud, on-premises, and edge resources, each projected via Azure Arc into Azure Resource Manager (ARM). This lets you manage VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they were running in Azure, using Azure services and management tools.

The key benefits of Azure Arc are:

• Single-pane...