Resources Flashcards
Region Pairs
Azure regions are independent of each other. However, Microsoft associates some Azure regions with another region, where both are usually in the same geography. Together the regions form a region pair.
Availability Zones
separated groups of datacenters within a region
Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create and manage a group of load balanced VMs. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined schedule.
Availability Set
Availability sets are logical groupings of VMs that reduce the chance of correlated failures bringing down related VMs at the same time. Availability sets place VMs in different fault domains for better reliability. This action is especially beneficial if a region doesn’t support availability zones.
VM subnets
A subnet is a range of IP addresses in the virtual network. You can divide a virtual network into multiple subnets for organization and security.
DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates, or resolves, a website or service name to its IP address.
VPN Gateway
Azure VPN Gateway is a service that can be used to send encrypted traffic between an Azure virtual network and on-premises locations over the public Internet. You can also use VPN Gateway to send encrypted traffic between Azure virtual networks over the Microsoft network.
Expressroute
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.
Azure AD DS
enables you to use managed domain services—such as Windows Domain Join, group policy, LDAP, and Kerberos authentication—without having to deploy, manage, or patch domain controllers.
Azure active directory /Microsoft Entra
an identity and access management solution from Microsoft that helps organizations secure and manage identities for hybrid and multicloud environments
Zero Trust
The zero trust model is a strategy that eliminates the idea of trust in an organization’s network framework.
Cloud defender
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that includes security measures and practices designed to protect cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Azure blueprints
Just as a blueprint allows an engineer or an architect to sketch a project’s design parameters, Azure Blueprints enables cloud architects and central information technology groups to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that implements and adheres to an organization’s standards, patterns, and requirements. Helps with environment setup. Integrates with cicd.
Azure Policy
Azure Policy ensures that resource state is compliant to your business rules without concern for who made the change or who has permission to make a change
Service trust portal
The Service Trust Portal is Microsoft’s public site for publishing audit reports and other compliance-related information associated with Microsoft’s cloud services
Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor offers actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost.
Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible terminal for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.
Cloud Shell runs on a temporary host provided on a per-session, per-user basis. Your Cloud Shell session times out after 20 minutes without interactive activity. Cloud Shell persists your files in your $HOME location using a 5-GB file share.
Shell environment
can access through the portal
CLI
The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available across Azure services and is designed to get you working quickly with Azure, with an emphasis on automation.
The Azure CLI runs in Windows (Cmd or PowerShell), Linux, macOS, Docker containers, and Azure Cloud Shell. Using Azure Cloud Shell is the quickest way to get started.
command line tool
Powershell
Azure PowerShell is a powerful tool for managing and administering Azure resources directly from PowerShell. It’s ideal for building automated workflows and managing resources using the Azure Resource Manager model. You can try it out in your browser using Azure Cloud Shell or install it locally on your machine.Linux container
command line tool
Azure Arc
Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multicloud and on-premises management platform.
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing, and responding to monitoring data from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Log analytics
Log Analytics is a tool in the Azure portal to edit and run log queries from data collected by Azure Monitor logs and interactively analyze their results.
Application insight
Azure Application Insights is an extensible analytics service that helps you understand the performance and usage of your live web application.
