Day Two Cloud 126: Azure Arc And Building A Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft’s Azure Arc is a service that lets you deploy Azure resources on any infrastructure—Azure cloud and on-prem—and link that infrastructure to the Azure portal for a single point of management. It provides configuration, monitoring, and more for Windows and Linux servers, SQL servers, and Kubernetes (K8s) clusters whether they are local or in the public cloud. Microsoft is positioning Azure Arc to support hybrid cloud initiatives. On today’s Day Two Cloud, we dig into Azure Arc with guest Ben Weissman, a Data Passionist at the consulting firm Solisyon. He’s also a Microsoft MVP and Pluralsight course creator. We discuss: * Azure’s approach to hybrid cloud * Hybrid cloud challenges * How Azure Arc fits into other Azure offerings * What you need on-prem and in the cloud to use Azure Arc * Pricing issues * More Takeaways: The future is hybrid – for most of us at least. Find a way to deal with that! Simplicity is king – automation is a big part of that simplicity Look into infrastructure as code Powershell bicep Use k8s (You’ll get it when you start looking into Azure Arc-enabled data services.) Sponsor: Juniper Apstra Apstra’s Intent-Based solution simplifies data center network deployment, operations, and management from Day 0 through Day 2. It delivers automation and continuous validation of your data center network in multi-vendor environments. The result is savings on downstream costs and exponentially more value from your network investments. Find out more at juniper.net/packetpushers/apstra. Show Links: @bweissman – Ben Weissman on Twitter Deploying Azure Resources Using Bicep – Pluralsight Ben Weissman’s Pluralsight courses Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services Revealed – APress Transcript: [00:00:00.850] – Ethan Sponsor Juniper Appstra’s intent based multi vendor networking solution helps you build your data center network to a specific design, then make sure it stays within that spec deployment, automation and continuous validation. Find out more at Juniper dot. Net PacketPushers Appstrap. [00:00:24.210] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Today’s topic is going to be about the hybrid cloud and Azure Arc. Yes, it’s going to be another Azure service, but this one is not focused on Azure things. It’s focused on Prem and other clouds. What’s that all about? [00:00:41.430] – Ethan Yeah, well, you can certainly deal with Azure stuff, right? But Arc gives you this sort of an umbrella manager so you can manage things that are both in Azure and on premises. So it’s dare I say it hybrid cloud related Ned. [00:00:57.870] – Ned Oh, no. [00:00:58.510] – Ned We use the dreaded each word. And here to school us all about Azure Arc is Ben Weisman. He is a data passionate about data and a Microsoft MVP, so enjoy the show with him and Azure Arc. Well, Ben Weisman, welcome to Day Two Cloud. And let’s start with the easy stuff. Ben, who are you? And what would you say you do around here? [00:01:21.