The Azure Arc Resource Bridge is a powerful feature of Azure Arc that enables organizations to integrate their non-Azure resources into Azure Arc. This allows them to have a consistent management experience for all their resources, regardless of where they are located.
The Azure Arc Resource Bridge provides a number of key benefits for organizations, including:
- Resource management: With the Azure Arc Resource Bridge, organizations can manage their non-Azure resources using Azure Policy and Azure Security Center, which provide policy-based control, monitoring, and threat protection. This allows organizations to enforce policies and configurations across all their resources, regardless of where they are located.
- Inventory management: The Azure Arc Resource Bridge allows organizations to discover and inventory their non-Azure resources, such as virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and databases, and then apply policies and configurations to them. This provides a unified view of all resources, making it easier to manage and monitor them.
- Compliance management: The Azure Arc Resource Bridge provides a consistent approach to compliance management across all resources, regardless of where they are located. This helps organizations to achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
- Automation: The Azure Arc Resource Bridge enables organizations to automate resource provisioning, configuration, and management using Azure Resource Manager templates. This makes it easier and faster to deploy and manage resources, while also ensuring consistency and reliability.
The Azure Arc Resource Bridge documentation on the Microsoft Learn website provides detailed information on how to set up and configure the Azure Arc Resource Bridge, as well as how to manage and monitor non-Azure resources using Azure Arc. It includes step-by-step tutorials, examples, and best practices to help organizations get started with the Azure Arc Resource Bridge.
To use the Azure Arc Resource Bridge, organizations first need to register their non-Azure resources with Azure Arc. This involves installing the Azure Arc agent on the non-Azure resources, which allows them to communicate with the Azure portal. The Azure Arc agent is available for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes.
With Azure Arc resource bridge, organisations can extend and manage existing infrastructure workloads on Azure Stack HCI, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and VMware vSphere.
Currently supported the following Azure regions: East US, East US2, West US2, West US3, South Central US, West Europe, North Europe, UK South, Canada Central, Australia East, and Southeast Asia
Once the non-Azure resources are registered with Azure Arc, organizations can start using the Azure Arc Resource Bridge to manage and monitor them. This involves setting up policies and configurations using Azure Policy and Azure Security Center, which provide policy-based control, monitoring, and threat protection.
One of the key benefits of the Azure Arc Resource Bridge is that it provides a consistent management experience for all resources, regardless of where they are located. This makes it easier for organizations to manage their resources, particularly when they have resources located in different regions or on-premises.
In addition to providing a consistent management experience, the Azure Arc Resource Bridge also provides a unified view of all resources, which makes it easier to monitor and troubleshoot issues. This is particularly important for organizations that have a large number of resources located in different locations.
The Azure Arc resource bridge is delivered as a small virtual appliance that interacts with the existing platform and once connected to Azure projects the desired resources to the Azure Arc service.
Overall, the Azure Arc Resource Bridge is a powerful solution for organizations looking to manage and monitor their non-Azure resources from the Azure portal. With its support for a variety of platforms and its integration with Azure services, the Azure Arc Resource Bridge provides organizations with greater flexibility, security, and efficiency in their resource management.
