Chapter 1: Azure Arc Overview
In this chapter, we'll introduce you to Azure Arc, which is Microsoft's latest play in the hybrid cloud computing market. We'll start with covering what Azure Arc is and what it isn't. We will talk about various services available under the Azure Arc umbrella and use cases.
We can apply the knowledge gathered from this chapter to the customer environment for modernizing on-premises architectures and governing the infrastructure via the Azure portal.
Additionally, to progress ahead in their career, specialists and administrators can benefit from this knowledge and the smooth transition in learning about the Microsoft Azure cloud and the vast spectrum of features it provides. This will provide you with an enriching learning curve as you explore the only service offering that brings together on-premises infrastructure and hybrid cloud in combination with infrastructure, data, and microservices architecture.
By the end of this chapter, we will have set a basis for further chapters by building the prerequisite lab infrastructure.
We'll be covering the following topics:
- What is Azure Arc?
- Introducing Azure Arc use cases
- Understanding Azure Arc
- Exploring Azure Arc services
- Building the lab prerequisite for Azure Arc
- Pricing
