Updated: January 11, 2021 (January 11, 2021)
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Azure Arc is a set of capabilities for using Azure to work with deployments hosted outside of Azure. Arc components include Arc-Enabled Servers, Arc-Enabled Kubernetes, and Arc-Enabled Data Services.
Arc extends the Azure Resource Manager management framework to enable the creation of Azure resources for servers and Kubernetes clusters hosted outside of Azure so that they can be managed in the Azure portal and other Azure management tools. Thus, non-Azure deployments can be managed alongside Azure deployments using the same user interfaces and services, such as tags and policies.
Arc-Enabled Servers enables Azure to manage Windows Server and Linux servers hosted on-premises, with hosting providers, or in other clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The non-Azure servers are represented as Azure resources, and their Azure metadata resides within an Azure subscription. Non-Azure servers communicate with Arc using a local agent that must be installed on each server.
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