Azure Arc for Developers, IT Pros, Cloud Architects, and Security Engineers

Azure Arc allows customers to extend Azure management and Azure services to anywhere. Now that said, this offers a lot of different opportunities and features depending on your job role. I wrote a couple of blog posts on our team blog on Microsoft Tech Community, to show the different Azure Arc capabilities in hybrid and multicloud environments to developers, IT Pros, Cloud Architects, and Security Engineers.

Here is an overview and some of the highlights of the blog posts. You can find more about each of these job roles here:

• Azure Arc for Developers on Tech Community
• Azure Arc for Cloud Solutions Architects on Tech Community
• Azure Arc for IT Pros on Tech Community
• Azure Arc for Security Engineers on Tech Community

Azure Arc for Developers

Azure Arc and the Azure control plane enables developers to build hybrid and mutlicloud architectures for their applications. Taking advantage of the Azure control plane to manage infrastructure and allows to deploy Azure services anywhere. This allows customers to build cloud solutions and application architectures consistently, independent of where the application is running. Developers can use their favorite Azure services like WebApps or Azure SQL, and run their applications outside of Azure.

Highlights for Developers

• Use the Azure Portal to gain central visibility
• Manage Access
• Enable your custom deployment locations
• Run cloud-native apps on Azure PaaS anywhere
• Azure Arc enabled Data Services
• CI/CD workflow using GitOps – Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
• Access your Kubernetes Cluster from anywhere
• Deploy and run Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) on-premises on Azure Stack HCI
• Run Machine Learning anywhere
• Use Azure Managed Identities on-prem or at other cloud providers
• Monitoring
• and more

You can read the full Azure Arc for Developers blog post on Tech Community.

Azure Arc for IT Pros

Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multi-cloud and on-premises management platform. Azure Arc enables IT Professionals (IT Pros) to manage your entire environment, with a single pane of glass, by projecting your existing resources into Azure Resource Manager. You can now manage servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they are running in Azure. Regardless of where they live, you can use familiar Azure services and management capabilities. Azure Arc enables you to continue using traditional ITOps, while introducing DevOps practices to support new cloud-native patterns in your environment.

Highlights for IT Pros

• Use the Azure Portal to gain central visibility
• Organization and Inventory
• Azure Resource Graph
• Manage Access
• Update Management
• Monitoring
• Log collection and analytics
• Change Tracking and Inventory
• Certificate Management
• Security
• Running Scripts against servers
• Get compliance state
• Manage your Azure Stack HCI

You can read the full Azure Arc for IT Pros blog post on Tech Community.

Azure Arc for Cloud Solutions Architects

Azure Arc and the Azure control plane enables Cloud Solutions Architects to build hybrid and mutlicloud architectures. Taking advantage of the Azure control plane to manage infrastructure and allows to deploy Azure services anywhere. This allows customers to build cloud solutions and applications architectures consistently, independent of where the application is running.

Highlights for Cloud Solutions Architects

• Use the Azure Portal to gain central visibility
• Organization and Inventory
• Azure Resource Graph
• Manage Access
• Enable your custom deployment locations
• Run cloud-native apps on Azure PaaS anywhere
• Azure Arc enabled Data Services
• CI/CD workflow using GitOps – Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
• Deploy and run Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) on-premises on Azure Stack HCI
• Use Azure Managed Identities on-prem or at other cloud providers
• Run Machine Learning anywhere
• Update Management
• Monitoring
• Log collection and analytics
• Change Tracking and Inventory
• Certificate Management
• Security
• Running Scripts against servers
• Get compliance state
• Manage your Azure Stack HCI

You can read the full Azure Arc for Cloud Solutions Architects blog post on Tech Community.

Azure Arc for Security Engineers

Azure Arc and the Azure control plane enables Security Engineers to take care of Cloud Governance and make sure that their hybrid and multi-cloud environment are configured in a secure and compliant state. In hybrid and multicloud environments, it can be difficult for Security Engineers to get a central view of all the resources they need to manage. Some of these resources are running in Azure, some on-premises, at branch offices, or even at other cloud providers. By connecting resources to the Azure Resource Manager using Azure Arc, Security Engineers can get central visibility and compliance states of a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters, and Azure services running in Azure and outside of Azure.

Highlights for Security Engineers

• Use the Azure Portal to gain central visibility
• Organization and Inventory
• Azure Resource Graph
• Manage Access
• Update Management
• Monitoring
• Log collection and analytics
• Change Tracking and Inventory
• Certificate Management
• Security
• Get compliance state

You can read the full Azure Arc for Security Engineers blog post on Tech Community.