Learn about Azure Stack HCI on Microsoft Learn!
Last week the general availability of the new Azure Stack HCI, our new hybrid cloud hyper-converged platform was announced. With the release of this new platform, the team also released a new Microsoft Learn learning path called Azure Stack HCI foundations. In this learning path, you will be introduced to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about the differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. If you want to get an overview of the Azure Stack portfolio or the new Azure Stack HCI 20H2 version, check out my blog posts. The new Azure Stack HCI foundations learning path on Microsoft Learn currently has 4 modules: Introduction to Azure Stack This module introduces you to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about the differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. You can check out the module here. Introduction to Azure Stack HCI core technologies This module introduces Azure Stack HCI technologies. You’ll learn about the core Azure Stack HCI technologies, including Hyper-V, Windows Server software-defined storage, and Windows Server software-defined networking. You can check out the module here. Plan and deploy Azure Stack HCI This module introduces you to planing for and deploying Azure Stack HCI. Content includes identifying suitable workloads, determining the optimal configuration to host these workloads, stepping through the deployment process, validating post-deployment operational status, and evaluating Azure integration options. You can check out the module here. Integrate Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI In this module, you will learn the fundamentals of Azure Arc and how is it used to bring new capabilities to the management and monitoring of your Azure Stack HCI clusters at scale. You can check out the module here. You can read the full blog post here.Installing App Services on Azure Stack Hub
We recently deployed app services to a production azure stack environment and realized existing documentation and articles either out of date, poorly written or leave out crucial pieces so I wrote a complete beginning to end walk through of our deployment of app services in an azure stack hub. https://www.safarimicro.com/blog/installing-azure-app-services-on-azure-stack-hub It contains all the important information we learned during the deployment that should help save you hours in your own deployment.
Doubts about hybrid architecture with azure stack connection with cloud resources
I recently started studying Azure Stack for a possible project, I would like to know if it is possible, for example, to use a Storage Account in Azure Stack and an Azure Databricks consuming information from that local Storage Account. In addition, is traffic charged as if it were data transfer between regions?
Connection to an ARM server using Azure Stack client library for C++ using SSL certificates.
We are trying to connect to an ARM server using Azure Stack client library for C++. https://azure.github.io/azure-storage-cpp/ We would like to use the blob storage to read/write data. SSL certificates are deployed in the Azure Stack servers. We would like to validate the SSL certificates of the ARM server before connecting to it. If REST APIs are used such as to list the subscriptions Ids in ARM server, SSL certificates and enforcement of TLS 1.2 could be done by the below curl command. curl -X "POST" "https://adfs.local.azurestack.external/adfs/oauth2/token" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --data-urlencode "client_id=1950a258-227b-4e31-a9cf-717495945fc2" --data-urlencode "grant_type=password" --data-urlencode "username=cloudadmin@azurestack.local" --data-urlencode "password=myazurepassword" --data-urlencode "resource=https://management.adfs.azurestack.local/65c7dcc3-2100-4ab2-a1bf-00d13291bf7d" --tlsv1.2 --cacert "C:\Users\AzureStackAdmin\Desktop\certs.pem" where --tlsv1.2 has been used for TLS enforcement and --cacert option of curl has been used for the certificate store. Could someone explain how the certificates could be validated when the connection is made to the ARM server using connect string of the client library. const utility::string_t storage_connection_string(U("DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=my_storage_account;AccountKey=my_storage_account_key")); What should be the method to specify the TLS version string and the certificate path in the connection string? Could someone please help? Thanks, Suman
