What This Book Covers
In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know to become an expert Azure administrator. The content has been divided into 22 chapters, covering all aspects of Azure administration.
Chapter 1, Managing Microsoft Entra ID Objects, teaches you about managing Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure AD) objects, including users, groups, and administrative units.
Chapter 2, Devices in Microsoft Entra ID, covers device management, bulk operations, guest accounts, and self-service password reset for seamless integration within your organization’s infrastructure.
Chapter 3, Managing Role-Based Access Control in Azure, teaches you how to master role-based access control (RBAC) to manage access to resources and data in Azure, including role creation, management, and assignments.
Chapter 4, Creating and Managing Governance, guides you through establishing governance with Azure policies and resource tags, setting the foundation for a well-managed organization.
Chapter 5, Managing Governance and Costs, takes you through governance-related functions to manage resources, services, and costs in Azure, ensuring effective governance and cost optimization.
Chapter 6, Understanding Storage Accounts, teaches you about storage account basics, performance tiers (Standard and Premium), and storage access tiers for optimal data management.
Chapter 7, Copying Data to and from Azure, guides you through using Azure Data Box for large-scale data transfer, and Azure Storage Explorer for convenient storage management.
Chapter 8, Securing Storage, sheds light on storage security configurations, including network access control, authentication, authorization, and shared access signature (SAS) tokens.
Chapter 9, Storage Management and Replication, illustrates how to manage a blob life cycle, replication options, data protection, versioning, and account deletion for reliable data storage.
Chapter 10, Azure Resource Manager Templates, guides you on using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for infrastructure as code (IaC), ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
Chapter 11, Azure Bicep, unpacks the newer domain-specific language, Azure Bicep, for IaC and teaches you how to define, deploy, and manage Azure resources efficiently.
Chapter 12, Understanding Virtual Machines, covers virtual machine (VM) basics, including VM storage, disk redundancy, sizes, networking, availability sets, and zones for optimal resource utilization.
Chapter 13, Managing Virtual Machines, unpacks how to manage VMs, including resizing, configuring disks, networking, moving between resource groups, redeployment, and disk encryption.
Chapter 14, Creating and Configuring Containers, introduces container basics, sizing, scaling, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AKS storage, and scaling options for efficient container management.
Chapter 15, Creating and Configuring App Services, shows you how to create and configure App Service instances for web applications, including administrative functions such as configurations, scaling, backups, and networking integrations.
Chapter 16, Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking, covers virtual networking, including creating and configuring Azure virtual networks (VNets), peering networks, and configuring private and public IP addresses, user-defined network routes, subnets, endpoints, and private endpoints.
Chapter 17, Securing Access to Virtual Networks, provides you with information on securing access to VNets with network security groups (NSGs), Azure Bastion, Azure Firewall, security rules, and threat protection services.
Chapter 18, Configuring Load Balancing, unpacks load balancing concepts and services such as high availability (HA), Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, and Front Door.
Chapter 19, Integrating On-Premises Networks with Azure, covers how to integrate your on-premises networks with Azure VNets using VPN connections, Express Route, site-to-site (S2S) VPN connections, point-to-site VPN, and Azure Virtual WAN for seamless network connectivity.
Chapter 20, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking, guides you through network monitoring and troubleshooting using Network Watcher to monitor virtual networks and external networking.
Chapter 21, Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor, teaches how to use Azure Monitor for resource monitoring, including metrics, alerts, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and troubleshooting skills.
Chapter 22, Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions, explains how to implement and configure backup and recovery solutions using Azure Backup and Recovery Service vaults, including deployment, configuration, backup policies, restore operations, and S2S recovery via Azure Site Recovery.
