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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure Implement, monitor, and manage important Azure services and components including IaaS and PaaS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134964
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mustafa Toroman Mustafa Toroman
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Preface 1. Key Concepts of Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Azure Networking - Foundation of Azure IaaS 3. Infrastructure as a Service - the First Layer of Cloud Computing 4. Azure App Service - Hosting Web Applications without a Server 5. The Azure Data Platform 6. Azure Storage, Backup, and Site Recovery - Moving your Data to Azure 7. Hybrid Cloud with Azure - Extending Local Workloads to the Cloud 8. Azure Active Directory - Identity in the Cloud 9. Azure Security and Administration 10. Best Practices 11. Assessments 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Infrastructure as code

IaC is a very important part in Azure best practices. Using Azure Portal is simple and excellent for creating a single resource and learning, but if we want to create complex environments, IaC is what we want to use. For example, for creating a single Azure VM, Azure Portal is a good choice. It takes 3-5 minutes to go through the New VM wizard and complete all of the steps. But what if we need to create new VMs on a daily basis or create tens or even hundreds of them? In this case, we would probably want to use some kind of automation to simplify our work, and this is exactly where IaC comes in. To work with Azure, we have a few options available:

  • ARM templates
  • Azure PowerShell
  • Azure CLI

We have already mentioned ARM templates. ARM templates are JSON files that hold information about Azure resources and can be used for deployment (or editing/updating existing...

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