Written by five Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs, this book is built on real-world scenarios and the authors’ extraordinary hands-on experiences as early adopters. Step by step, the authors help you integrate your optimal mix of private and public cloud, with a unified management experience that lets you move workloads at will, achieving unprecedented flexibility.
The authors also guide you through all aspects of building your own secure, high-performance hybrid cloud infrastructure. You’ll discover how Azure Stack enables you to run data centers with the same scalability, redundancy, and reliability as Microsoft’s Azure data centers; how to integrate Azure infrastructure and platform services with internal operations; and how to manage crucial external dependencies. The book concludes with a deep dive into automating and customizing Azure Stack for maximum reliability, productivity, and cost savings.
Detailed information on how to
- Run a private/hybrid cloud on your hardware in your data center, using APIs and code identical to public Azure
- Apply ITIL and DevOps lifecycles to your hybrid cloud implementation
- Gain a deep understanding of Azure Stack architecture, components, and internals
- Install and configure Azure Stack and master the Azure Stack Portal
- Integrate and utilize infrastructure, core, and custom resource providers
- Effectively provision, secure, and manage tenants
- Manage, monitor, troubleshoot, and back up Azure Stack with CloudOps
- Automate resource provisioning with PowerShell, the Azure CLI, templates, and Azure Stack’s API
- Write your own Azure Resource Manager templates
- Centrally automate cloud management and complex tasks connected to external systems
- Develop customized, production-ready Azure Stack marketplace items