Learn Azure Administration: Explore cloud administration concepts with networking, computing, storage, and identity management

by Kamil Mrzygłód

Enhance your Azure administration skills and get up and running with cloud infrastructure. Understand core Azure services and learn how to leverage various tools and tricks for improving your productivity. Microsoft Azure is one of the major cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure. Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to Azure subscriptions management and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as load balancing, authentication, authorization, and networking. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment using various tools like Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. This book is for cloud administrators, system administrators, and IT professionals who want to scale up their skill set and enter the world of cloud computing. IT professionals and engineers who are already familiar with the basics of Azure services and are looking for a step-by-step guide to solving the most common Azure problems will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of cloud concepts such as IaaS, PaaS, virtualization, networking, and common Azure services is required.

346 pages, Paperback

Published December 29, 2023