Learn Azure Administration: Solve your cloud administration issues relating to networking, storage, and identity management speedily and efficiently

Azure administration is a collection of connected decisions: how resources are organized, how users gain access, how networks are secured, and how services are monitored and maintained. Learn Azure Administration brings these day-to-day concerns together in a practical guide by Kamil Mrzygłód, with coverage ranging from subscriptions and resource management to virtual networks, identity, access, and virtual machines.

Rather than treating cloud administration as a single task, the book moves through the systems and responsibilities that shape an Azure environment. Its procedural chapters are suited to readers who want to understand how core administrative work fits together.

Start with the Azure environment

The opening chapters address subscription models, Azure Policy, resource groups, deployment, resource locks, naming conventions, and cost monitoring. These subjects help establish the foundations for organizing and governing cloud resources before moving into more specialized administration.

Networking, identity, and access

Readers then explore virtual networks, peering, subnets, service endpoints, DNS, and network security groups. The identity and access management chapters turn to users, groups, directory roles, application registration, multifactor authentication, custom roles, managed identities, and shared access policies. Seen together, these topics show how connectivity and permissions are central parts of managing cloud services.

Managing virtual machines and services

The book also covers practical VM administration, including data disks, network interfaces, scaling, monitoring, high availability, deployment, and secure connections. Its broader administration coverage reaches into storage, backup, automation, and related Azure services.

A practical reference for cloud administrators

This first edition was published in 2020, so Azure’s services and terminology may have changed since its publication. It is most relevant to cloud and system administrators and IT professionals who already understand basic cloud concepts and want a structured introduction to common Azure administration tasks. For current configurations and service behavior, pair the book with up-to-date Microsoft documentation.