You're reading from Learn Azure Administration Explore cloud administration concepts with networking, computing, storage, and identity management

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837636112

Length 346 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Kamil Mrzygłód

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Introduction to Azure for Azure Administrators

2. Chapter 1: Azure Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Basics of Infrastructure as Code

4. Part 2: Networking for Azure Administrator

5. Chapter 3: Understanding Azure Virtual Networks

6. Chapter 4: Exploring Azure Load Balancer

7. Part 3: Administration of Azure Virtual Machines

8. Chapter 5: Provisioning Azure Virtual Machines

9. Chapter 6: Configuring Virtual Machine Extensions

10. Chapter 7: Configuring Backups

11. Chapter 8: Configuring and Managing Disks

12. Part 4: Azure Storage for Administrators

13. Chapter 9: Configuring Blob Storage

14. Chapter 10: Azure Files and Azure File Sync

15. Chapter 11: Azure Storage Security and Additional Tooling

16. Part 5: Governance and Monitoring

17. Chapter 12: Using Azure Policy

18. Chapter 13: Azure Monitor and Alerts

19. Chapter 14: Azure Log Analytics

20. Chapter 15: Exploring Network Watcher

21. Index

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Managing Azure Files (File Service)

Azure Files (often called File Service or File Storage) is a managed solution that’s part of Azure Storage. While Blob Storage, as described in Chapter 9, enables us to store various files, configure their life cycles, and replicate them accordingly, Azure Files is meant as an enterprise-grade file share solution that can be integrated with the end user machine as a replacement for on-premises shares. Such an approach allows you to simplify infrastructure setup and lower the cost of operations as you no longer need to manage infrastructure yourself.

Let’s start our journey with Azure Files by describing possible access protocols.

Available access protocols

As Azure Files is a cloud-based file share, to be useful as a replacement for on-premises components, it needs to support a similar set of common protocols that are used in file-sharing scenarios. For now, this service supports the following access methods: