Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes for Multicloud

Chapter 1. Azure Arc Consistency Across Multiclouds

In this chapter, you’ll embark on a journey into the world of multicloud and also gain an overview of what the entire Azure Arc service has to offer.

What Is Azure Arc?

In today’s world of tech, many organizations large and small have embraced cloud. Organizations often opt for a hybrid and multicloud strategy, and they often have some workloads running on-premises while other workloads run across multiple cloud providers.

Organizations adopt a hybrid and multicloud strategy for a number of reasons: it helps them realize the benefits of their on-premises investments, avoid vendor lock-in, and minimize downtime risk from a single cloud provider, and it gives them the ability to leverage the innovation of technologies from any cloud provider they choose.

With this choice comes new deployment and management challenges. One of the first challenges is handling differences between each cloud provider and the differences in the native tooling used for governance and management of each. This can be expensive to run and hard to keep up with.

Another challenge is skill sets—getting your IT teams skilled up on a single cloud is challenging enough, but mastering two or three different cloud platforms is even more difficult. Being able to train on a single toolset or cloud lowers the barrier to your teams managing multicloud. Solutions are available for solving this challenge, and Azure Arc is one such solution.

Azure Arc is a software-based ...