Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Last Updated: 1/27/2023

Azure Arc

  • Managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments can rapidly get complicated.
  • In utilizing Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Arc lets you extend your Azure compliance and monitoring to your hybrid and multi-cloud configurations.
  • Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multi-cloud and on-premises management platform.
  • Azure Arc provides a centralized, unified way to:
    • Manage your entire environment together by projecting your existing non-Azure resources into ARM.
    • Manage multi-cloud and hybrid virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they are running in Azure.
    • Use familiar Azure services and management capabilities, regardless of where they live.
    • Continue using traditional ITOps while introducing DevOps practices to support new cloud and native patterns in your environment.
    • Configure custom locations as an abstraction layer on top of Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters and cluster extensions.
  • Currently, Azure Arc allows you to manage the following resource types hosted outside of Azure
    • Servers
    • Kubernetes clusters
    • Azure data services
    • SQL Server
    • Virtual machines (preview)
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