Chapter 2
Exploring Azure Resource Manager
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting to know Azure Resource Manager
Familiarizing yourself with Azure regions
Learning the Azure management tools
In this chapter, I give you a glimpse behind the proverbial curtain as I introduce you to the back-end services that comprise the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
At first blush, you may find the forthcoming discussions of REST APIs to be a bit (perhaps more than a bit) developerish and outside your professional comfort zone. Stay with me, please! I submit that any Azure professional, regardless of specialization, must have a solid understanding of Azure Resource Manager architecture; after all, it underlies every bit of Azure-based services.
Introducing Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager (most often abbreviated ARM and pronounced like the body part) is the deployment and management service underneath Microsoft Azure. Every action you take in Azure, regardless of the tool you use, calls the ARM REST APIs. The Azure portal is simply a web front end that abstracts ARM REST API requests and responses.
“What’s a REST API, Tim?” you rightly ask. I answer that question next.
REST APIs
An application ...
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