Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

Virtual machines (VMs)

Here are some things you should be following with respect to VMs:

• Protect VMs with secure authentication and access control
• Use the ARM Template for consistency in deployment
• Use multiple VMs for better availability, and consider putting them into availability sets
• Integrate VMs into Azure Security Center and use anti-malware
• Leverage Azure Monitor to help with visibility into resource issues
• Encrypt your disks

For more details, refer the MSDN documentation, available at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/plankytronixx/2015/05/01/azure-exam-prep-fault-domains-and-update-domains/

The following practices should be avoided:

• Do not give everyone admin control, useless you use Azure Privileged Identity Management
• Do not ...