Tools for Managing and Deploying Azure Resources

Question 1

What does the Azure CLI allow?

Answer 1

• allows lot of linux commands
• allows for azure commands which are directly used in your loged-in azure account

Question 2

What is the service Azure Arc?

Answer 2

• Cross-Platform VM & Container Management
• allows to manage VMs and containers and physical servers outside of Azure as if they were Azure VM servers and containers

Question 3

What are Azure Arc Features?

Answer 3

• consistent management for server across your environment (on-premise, Azure, others providers, …)
• azure VM extensions allows Azure tools to work for monitoring, security and updates
• Supports data services
• works with Kubernetes clusters
• Works with Azure Policy

Question 4

What are Azure VM extensions?

Answer 4

• installed on your not-Azure VMs/containters/physical machines
• to work together with Azure Arc to get managed from inside Azure

Question 5

What do Azure VM extensions allow?

Answer 5

• collect log data for Log Analytics and Monitor
• Use VM Insights to analyze performance
• download and execute scripts to hybrid connected machines
• refresh certification using Key Vault

Question 6

In Infrastructure as Code what does Infrastructure include?

Answer 6

• all servers,
• storage,
• database settings,
• network settings
• firewalls
• load balancers
• etc

All resources running in your Azure accout

Question 7

How do you backup your Infrastructure in Azure?

Answer 7

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Question 7

How does IaC work?

Answer 7

• you define a config file that defines the infrastructure
• that file can be deployed to deploy the infrastructure
• can be duplicated, copied, i.e. to a different region

Question 8

What is Desired state configuration (DSC)?

Answer 8

• related concept to Infrastructure as Code
• once you setup your environment (Ram, hard drive, …) it becomes challenging to manage it over time (**drift **-> over time configurations become slightly different)
• solution is doing setup configurations by files (IaC)

Question 9

What options for Infrastrucutre as Code exist in Azure?

Answer 9

• ARM templates (JSON)
• Bicep
• Terraform
• Chef, Puppet
• PowerShell Scripts
• Other type of code

Question 10

What is ARM?

Answer 10

• ARM stands for Azure Resource Manager
• deployment and management service for Azure
• management layer that allows you to create, update and delete resources called “deployments”
• all actions that you take to manage your Azure resources go through the ARM layer

Question 11

What does an ARM template consist of?

Answer 11

Two files:
- the template itself
- set of parameters needed in the template

Question 12

Which options do you have for running scripts in Azure?

Answer 12

• PowerShell
• Bash