Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
Deployment models
Azure's history has seen a major redesign:
- Azure Service Manager (also called "Classic deployment") is the older model, dating back to the Windows Azure days. Resources marked as "classic" are generally totally different types to the newer ones supporting ARM, greatly limiting access to modern Azure resources.
- Azure Resource Manager (also called "ARM") is the newer model, designed to accommodate a larger number of more disparate services.
Clients
- The Az PowerShell module (
Az
, formallyAzureRM
) is compatible with PowerShell Core. - The Azure Portal.
- The
azurerm
Terraform (Private) provider.
Azure CLI
The Azure CLI (az
) is a cross-platform Python (Private) application providing clients for most services. It's possible to write and distribute applications for easy extension of the CLI.
See Microsoft's documentation.
PowerShell module
The Az
PowerShell module offers an object-oriented means of browsing and managing Azure resources. It's useful for complex operations across a bunch of resources, requiring less scripting than the az
CLI tool.
Rest API
It's sometimes necessary to work with the REST API directly, especially when doing new development for or troubleshooting issues in clients like Terraform.
The documentation for all Azure service APIs can be found in the REST API reference.
Activity Log
Most actions performed on Azure resources are written to the Azure Activity Log, allowing auditing. These are retained for 90 days.
Children
- AAD
- ACI
- AKS
- ARM
- Advisor
- App Service
- Application Gateway
- Automation
- Backup
- Batch
- Blueprint
- CDN
- Cloud Services
- Container Registry
- DNS Zones
- Data Explorer
- Datacentre architecture
- DevOps
- Event Grid
- Front Door
- Functions
- Key Vault
- Load Balancer
- Managed identities
- Monitor
- NAT Gateway
- PSDrive
- Policy
- Portal
- PowerShell support
- RBAC
- Resource Explorer
- SQL Database
- Security Centre
- Sentinel
- Service Manager
- Shared Image Gallery
- Site Recovery
- Site Recovery
- Storage
- Traffic Manager
- VPN Gateway
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Virtual Machines
- Virtual Networking
- az CLI
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