Chapter 12. Managing Azure

In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:

  • Using PowerShell with Azure
  • Creating core Azure resources
  • Exploring your storage account
  • Creating an Azure SMB file share
  • Create an Azure website
  • Creating an Azure VM

Introduction

Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform and is a competitor to Amazon's Amazon Web Services and other public cloud providers, Azure provides you with access to a huge range of features. Organizations can literally move their entire on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.

Azure features come from three levels:

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)

IaaS is, in effect, an instant computing infrastructure that you can provision, manage, and use over ...

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