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-premises 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. Azure experts and MVPs Buchanan and Joyner provide
just the right amount of context so you can grasp important concepts and get right to the
business of using and gaining value from Azure Arc. If your organization has resources across
hybrid cloud multi-cloud and edge environments then this book is for you. You will learn how
to configure and use Azure Arc to uniformly manage workloads across all of these environments.
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 Who
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.
