Amit Malik and Daman Kaur - Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

Explore the new-generation hybrid cloud and learn how to build Azure Arc-enabled solutions

Amit Malik

Daman Kaur

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To my parents, Sunita and Sat Prakash Malik

Amit Malik

To my parents, Pardeep and Kawaljeet S Sachdeva, and all the girls who dream big...

Daman Kaur

Having had the pleasure of knowing and working with Daman in her role as an SME, I can attest to her intensity of her tech knowledge and specialization in a wide variety of Data and AI services Infrastructure, especially Cloud, Hybrid, Kubernetes, and Big Data solutions. In this book, Daman guides you through a comprehensive learning journey, diving into Azure Arc. The book covers topics ranging from initial setup to implementing best practices for various use cases.

Since the launch of Azure Arc in mid-2020, it has continued to evolve rapidly through innovation to meet customer and market needs, and has reached the point at which we can manage and operate on-prem and poly cloud infrastructure and run various Azure services on that infrastructure as it would run on Azure Hyper cloud, all of which can be achieved through the familiar Azure control plane.

During this evolution, Daman has focused on researching and mastering Health, Compliance, and Resiliency feature releases. She is an excellent learner and advocate who supports successful adoption of applications and their unified management across Azure Arc enabled Servers, SQL and Postgres, and Kubernetes.

In her examples, Daman demonstrates the ease with which one can install, configure, and manage a wide range of hybrid and poly cloud infrastructure under Azure Arc to bring Azure services on those infrastructure with a single familiar Azure control plane. Daman also helps administrators and developers create and optimally manage the Azure Arc in an automated, secure, and compliant manner. She covers Monitoring, striking Consistency across on-prem, Edge and Cloud with full resiliency, backup, and migration all of which, supported by practical examples.

Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc presents a comprehensive introduction to Azure Arc and hybrid cloud computing, including use cases and supported topologies. Topics include instruction on setting up Windows and Linux servers as Arc-enabled machines and allowing readers to get to grips with deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters with Azure Arc and GitOps. The book then demonstrates how to onboard an on-prem SQL Server infrastructure as an Arc-enabled SQL Server and deploy a hyperscale PostgreSQL infrastructure on-prem through Azure Arc. This book further includes a thorough overview of deployment and management of Azure's data services on your chosen Infrastructure.

As an entertaining presenter, active community contributor, and passionate advocate, Daman imparts the knowledge and experience gained through this period of progressive innovation. With her words, step-by-step instructions, screenshots, source code snippets, examples, and links to additional sources of information, mplementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc facilitates a continual enhancement of skills that enables successful adoption and operation of Azure Arc environment.

Become a hybrid poly cloud whiz with Azure Arc and host powerful and familiar Azure services on multiple infrastructure including on-prem. Harness the power of Azure Arc and its integration with cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and PaaS data services.

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Director Customer Success,

Microsoft

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist focused on the cloud and emerging technologies. He is currently employed by Spektra Systems as the chief operating officer, where he helps Microsoft partners grow their cloud businesses by using effective tools and strategies. He specializes in the cloud, DevOps, software-defined infrastructure, application modernization, data platforms, and emerging technologies around AI. Amit holds various industry-admired certifications from all major OEMs in the cloud and data space, including Azure Solutions Architect Expert. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Amit is an active community member of various technology groups and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events.

Special thanks to Daman Kaur, for she has lived and breathed this book for the past 6 months or so. She is meticulous in her approach and has an unparalleled talent for synthesizing research so it is concise and understandable.

Additionally, I am grateful for the assistance provided by the Packt team for their generous feedback and for making this publication even better, especially Rahul Nair for his support throughout the journey and for making our experience of writing wonderful.

Daman Kaur is an experienced cloud solution architect with a demonstrated history of designing, building, and managing high-performing IT solutions in big data, cloud infrastructure, containers, and virtualization. Currently working at Microsoft, she is responsible for solution design, enablement, and deployment solutions covering all areas and services on Azure. Primarily, her focus is on data and AI plus apps and infrastructure. In addition to this, she is an MCT and is certified on various Microsoft, and other, technologies.

I am grateful to my parents, for they believed in me and gave so much of themselves throughout my journey. My deepest thanks to my writing partner, Amit Malik. This book would not have been written if it were not for Amit. He put in nights, early mornings, weekends, and holidays to accommodate both of our schedules and meet the deadlines. I learned a great deal from his clear thinking, deep insight, and analytical rigor. Also, my deepest gratitude to the team at Packt.