Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Understanding the Basics -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Azure Subscriptions -- Technical requirements -- Getting an Azure subscription -- PAYG -- CSP -- Enterprise Agreement -- Understanding different subscription models -- Implementing subscription policies -- Getting started with Azure Policy -- Policy validation results -- Examples of Azure policies -- Using Azure Blueprints for repeatable deploy and update operations
Getting started with Blueprint assignment -- Assigning an Azure blueprint -- Checking usage and managing quotas -- Cost monitoring and analysis -- Cost analysis -- Budgets -- Azure Advisor -- Implementing management automation -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Managing Azure Resources -- Technical requirements -- Managing resource providers -- Managing resource groups -- Browsing resource groups -- Listing the available resources -- Moving resources -- Understanding resource providers -- Performing deployments using ARM with templates -- Writing a template from scratch
Automation scripts -- Other tools -- Implementing resource locks -- Subscription locks -- Resource group locks -- Automating resource group management with Azure Event Grid -- Creating an event subscription -- Analyzing the gathered data -- Implementing proper resource naming conventions -- Subscription -- Resource group -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks -- Technical requirements -- Creating and configuring VNet peering -- The Azure portal -- The Azure CLI -- Creating and configuring VNet-to-VNet connection -- Single region -- Multiple regions
Connecting the networks -- The same resource group -- Different resource groups -- Creating and configuring subnets -- Creating a VNet -- Creating a subnet -- Understanding subnet configuration -- Securing critical Azure services with service endpoints -- Creating a VNet and Azure Storage account -- Creating a service endpoint -- Configuring a service endpoint -- Configuring a naming resolutions -- Creating a DNS zone -- Configuring the DNS within a VNet -- Creating and configuring network security groups (NSGs) -- Creating a VNet with a subnet -- Adding an NSG to a subnet -- Reviewing NSG rules
Adding an NSG rule -- Summary -- Section 2: Identity and Access Management -- Chapter 4: Identity Management -- Technical requirements -- Creating users in Azure AD -- Getting started with user creation -- Creating a user in an Azure Active Directory tenant -- Creating a guest user -- Describing the user creation process -- Assigning a role to a user -- Registering an application in Azure AD -- Creating a new application -- Creating groups -- Group creation -- Managing groups -- Managing directory roles -- Monitoring and auditing users -- Enabling MFA authentication
