Azure Admin Prerequisites Flashcards
Tasks of Azure administrators (examples)
- Deploying dozens or hundreds of resources at a time.
- Configuring individual services using scripts.
- Viewing rich reports across usage, health, costs, and more.
Azure portal
https://portal.azure.com
lets you build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud applications in a single, unified console.
- Search resources, services, and docs.
- Manage resources.
- Create customized dashboards and favorites.
- Access the Cloud Shell.
- Receive notifications.
- Links to the Azure documentation.
Azure Cloud Shell
- interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources
- can choose between Bash or Windows power shell
Azure Cloud Shell features
- Is temporary and requires a new or existing Azure Files share to be mounted.
2.Offers an integrated graphical text editor based on the open-source Monaco Editor.
- Authenticates automatically for instant access to your resources.
- Runs on a temporary host provided on a per-session, per-user basis.
- Times out after 20 minutes without interactive activity.
- Requires a resource group, storage account, and Azure File share.
- Uses the same Azure file share for both Bash and PowerShell.
- Is assigned to one machine per user account.
- Persists $HOME using a 5-GB image held in your file share.
- Permissions are set as a regular Linux user in Bash.
Az module
the formal name for the Azure PowerShell module containing cmdlets to work with Azure features
Commands in the CLI are structured in
- groups
- subgroups
CLI commands - groups
Each group represents a service provided by Azure (i.e. storage)
CLI commands - subgroups
divide commands for these services into logical groupings (i.e. storage => account, blob, share, queue)
Azure CLI how to find commands
- az find blob
- az storage blob –help (know the full name of the command)