The 12 Days of Azure ArcMas - A Console In A Cloud Tree

On the first day of Arc-mas, Azure granted me: A Console in a Cloud Tree. Where management's centralized for all to see

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The 12 Days of Azure ArcMas - A Console In A Cloud Tree

The 12 Days of Azure Arc-Mas: Day 1 - Centralized Management

On the first day of Azure Arc-Mas, Azure granted me: A Console in a Cloud Tree.

Single Control Plane Across Environments

Azure Arc is like the partridge in a pear tree at the heart of your environment’s management, extending the familiar Azure services to wherever your resources reside. It simplifies the complex, multi-faceted nature of modern IT landscapes by offering a unified management experience, enabling you to view and manage your resources irrespective of their physical or cloud location.

Key Benefits of Azure Arc:

  • Unified Operations: Project your non-Azure and on-premises resources into Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and manage them with the same Azure-based tools you’re accustomed to.
  • Extended Azure Services: Use Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, and Azure Policy across all environments.
  • Cohesive Management Portal: Azure Arc’s portal offers a comprehensive view of all resources, streamlining monitoring, administration, and governance.

Azure Arc’s Centralized Management Services:

  1. Azure Arc for Servers: Manage both physical and virtual machines as if they were native Azure resources.
  2. Azure Arc for Kubernetes: Extend Azure management to any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster.
  3. Azure Arc for Data Services: Bring Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure PostgreSQL Hyperscale to Kubernetes clusters in any environment.
  4. Azure Arc-Enabled Machine Learning: Train machine learning models on any Kubernetes cluster connected to Azure Arc.
  5. Azure Arc for App Services: Run fully-managed Azure services on Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters.

Centralized management through Azure Arc not only streamlines IT operations but also brings consistency in management and governance, increases operational efficiency, and enhances visibility and control across your entire IT estate.

Stay tuned for Day 2, where we’ll unwrap another gift that Azure Arc brings to the table.

This post is part of the “12 Days of Azure Arc-Mas” series, where we explore how Azure Arc can be the gift that keeps on giving for your organization’s cloud and on-premises environments.