Question? How do you manage a multi-cloud environment in a single pane of glass?
Well lucky the folks at Microsoft have considered it all! With Azure Arc, you can simplify the management platform utilizing the existing capabilities of Azure & Azure Arc.
What does that mean? Whether you have OnPrem, AWS or GCP Azure Arc enables deployment of lightweight agents loaded onto your fleet which will enable centralized management of your cloud infrastructure.
I think of it as Intune for servers…
However, Microsoft says:
- Centrally manage a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters and Azure services.
- Perform virtual machine (VM) life cycle management for your Azure Stack HCI and VMware environments from a centralized location.
- Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure, and data with Azure Policy.
- Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse.
- Learn more about hybrid and multi-cloud management in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
and much more.
Depending on your environment maturity, and numerous platforms to archive similar goals… I’ve seen environments using Device42 or PRTG to obtain visibility on their infrastructure. Why not consider consolidating these activities using the built-in capabilities with Azure monitoring? Well Azure Arc enables these capabilities with your multi/hybrid cloud environment.
Hope that was insightful.