Warwick Rudd has a four-parter on Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services. Part 1 sets the stage:
Utilising Azure Arc-enabled data services provides you the ability to take advantage of the Azure data services (SQL Server, Azure SQL Managed Instance, PostgreSQL) in a hybrid environment. This offering provides you with reduced administrative efforts in managing and maintaining your data services while giving you the same look and feel as if you were running in the Azure Cloud.
Part 2 looks at the Data Controller:
The Azure Arc Data Controller is a Kubernetes operator that performs all of the orchestration to ensure you achieve your desired state. This is the main component in the Azure Arc infrastructure that links the data services with the Arc-enabled hardware located either in your On-premises, Azure, or any other public cloud data center and your azure subscription.
The Arc data controller allows you to deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your deployed data services estate using Azure Data Studio or the Azure Portal (only for directly connected mode deployments) but giving you the same experience as if you were managing your data services from inside of the Azure Portal.
Part 3 deploys a Data Controller:
As previously mentioned there are 2 types of deployment available for your Arc Data Controller. In this post, we are going to have a look at deploying in the Arc Data Controller using the directly connected mode.
For a directly connected Arc Data Controller, we have direct connectivity to our Azure subscription. With this in mind, there are several options as we previously discussed on how to deploy the data controller. For this post, we are using the portal deployment method.
Finally, Part 4 covers management options:
With ADS open and running you can create connections to Arc Data Controllers the same as you can with Instances of SQL Server. In ADS we have under the connections area a section specific for Arc Data Controllers.
Check out all four posts.