Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes and Servers (PDF)

Welcome to this introductory guide to using Microsoft's Azure Arc service, a new multi-cloud management platform that belongs in every cloud or DevOps estate. As many IT pros know, servers and Azure Kubernetes Service drive a huge amount of consumption in Azure-so why not extend familiar management tools proven in Azure to on-premise and other cloud networks? This practical guide will get you up to speed quickly, with instruction that treads light on the theory and heavy on the hands-on experience to make setting up Azure Arc servers and Kubernetes across multiple clouds a lot less complex.

What You Will Learn

• Introduces the basics of hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing and how Azure Arc fits into that IT strategy
• Teaches the fundamentals of Azure Resource Manager, setting the reader up with the knowledge needed on the technology that underpins Azure Arc
  
• Offers insights into Azure native management tooling for managing on-premises servers and extending to other clouds
• Details an end-to-end hybrid server monitoring scenario leveraging Azure Monitor and/or Azure Sentinel that is seamlessly delivered by Azure Arc
• Defines a blueprint to achieve regulatory compliance with industry standards using Azure Arc, delivering Azure Policy from Azure Defender for Servers
• Explores how Git and GitHub integrate with Azure Arc; delves into how GitOps is used with Azure Arc
• Empowers your DevOps teams to perform tasks that typically fall under IT operations
  
• Dives into how to best use Azure CLI with Azure Arc

This book is for DevOps, system administrators, security professionals, and IT workers responsible for servers both on-premises and in the cloud. Some experience in system administration, DevOps, containers, and use of Git/GitHub is helpful.