The Azure Arc multicloud and on-premises management platform Cloud Bridge

The Azure Arc cloud service supports centralized management of Windows and Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, and SQL servers that are not themselves running in Azure, extending Azure management capabilities to servers in traditional data centers or any other cloud environment. We show you how to get Azure Arc up and running and look at its key features.

Jens Söldner, Nils Bankert

One benefit of using Azure Management Services is that servers managed with Azure Arc are displayed as objects on the Azure portal. These servers can therefore be inventoried, updated, and monitored by a consolidated approach along with the servers that reside in Azure. Azure Arc also offers other features that help you manage databases and Kubernetes clusters, but in this article we focus on managing what Microsoft refers to as Azure Arc-enabled servers. Fortunately, Microsoft offers the features of the Azure Arc control plane free of charge. The feature set includes tag-based server management, Azure management groups, the ability to find and index servers with Azure Resource Graph, access rights management with the help of Azure role-based access control (RBAC), template- and extension-based automation, and update orchestration. However, Azure Arc…

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