Deploy and manage Azure Arc-enabled Servers
In this learning path, you're introduced to Azure Arc-enabled servers. You'll cover Arc-enabled server deployment, updates to Arc-enabled servers using Azure Update Manager and configuring Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers.
Prerequisites
- Experience using the Azure portal to create resources.
- Basic knowledge of security concepts like identities, permissions, and encryption.
- Basic knowledge of networking concepts like virtual networks, subnetting, and hybrid scenarios.
- Basic knowledge of Azure Policy and Azure Arc concepts.
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Modules in this learning path
This module introduces you to Azure Arc-enabled servers and describes its characteristics, capabilities, and use cases.
Azure Arc promises to bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud environments. Azure Arc-enabled servers extends the consistent security, observability, and governance of the Azure platform to non-Azure machines. In this module, you'll learn about planning and securely deploying Azure Arc-enabled servers at scale.
Azure Arc promises to bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud environments. Azure Arc extends the consistent security, observability, and governance of the Azure platform to non-Azure machines. In this module, you learn about governance of Azure Arc-enabled servers.
Update Manager is a unified service that helps manage and govern updates for all your machines. It allows you to monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across Azure and on-premises from a single dashboard.
By the end of this module, you'll understand how Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers can help you protect your cloud-based applications from various cyber threats.
This module covers the topic of enabling Azure Arc for Windows or Linux machines in your environment. Enabling Arc-enabled servers is done either manually or by using an automated method with a provided template script.
In this guided exercise, you practice onboarding, securing, monitoring, and updating on-premises Windows servers by using Azure Arc. The guided exercise combines both learning and hands-on practice.