Microsoft Azure: Hands-On, Project-Based Training

Explore essential cloud terms like high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, agility, and elasticity, and learn how providers guarantee uptime and automatically scale resources.

Understand cloud computing basics, virtualization, and how NIST defines cloud characteristics—on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, location independence, elasticity, and measurability—alongside insights from Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

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Explore cloud computing benefits, including cost reduction, CapEx vs OpEx, economies of scale, agility, high availability, and disaster recovery, while addressing security and migration considerations.

Learn the four cloud deployment models—private, public, hybrid, and community—and how to choose among them based on security, control, user experience, and responsibilities.

Explore the three cloud service models IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and compare provider versus user responsibilities from on-premises to cloud, with examples like Azure and Office 365.

Explore Azure architectural components, including regions, availability zones, resource groups, and Azure Resource Manager. Learn how regions and zones enable redundancy and high availability.

Learn to create a free Microsoft Azure account with a 30-day trial and $200 credit, including setting up via start free, email verification, and portal access.

Explore the Azure portal basics by navigating subscriptions, access management, and dashboards; learn to manage resources and create role assignments to secure and organize your Azure environment.

Learn a project-based approach to hosting a static website on azure using blob storage, including creating a resource group, storage account, blob container, uploading html, and enabling public access.

Learn how to create a resource group in Azure, organize resources with naming conventions, apply policy and tags, and understand cost implications and region placement.

Navigate the resource group blade to review deployed resources, manage access with IAM, apply policies and locks, export templates, monitor costs, and set up alerts and support options.

Create a storage account in your resource group with a globally unique name and replication. Choose hot, cold, or archive tiers and download an ARM template for automation.

Deploy a static website in Azure blob storage by creating a container, uploading your HTML files, and enabling anonymous read access.

Host a website inside a Windows virtual machine and explore dynamic website options. Create a resource group, deploy Windows VM, enable RDP port 3389, install IIS, and publish the site.

Deploy a virtual machine in Azure by selecting subscription, resource group, region, and image. Enable high availability with AZ, AS, or VMSS to prevent unavailability.

Learn to create an Azure virtual machine by configuring region, image, and size. Explore disk options, network settings, NSG rules, management features, and cost considerations using the pricing calculator.

Explore how to deploy and manage an Azure virtual machine as IaaS, using virtualization and a hypervisor, including connecting via rdp/ssh, configuring networks and disks, and creating reusable vm images.

Install and configure an IIS web server on a Windows Server VM with PowerShell, then deploy a static site by overwriting the default iisstart page.

Learn how to automate repetitive tasks in Azure using Azure Automation, including process automation, configuration and update management, to schedule VM stop/start, scale based on CPU, and securely manage secrets.

Explore the Azure automation account and runbooks for process automation, including graphical runbooks, update management, and desired state configuration, and gallery-based imports with variables, credentials, and log analytics.

Learn to create and test an Azure automation runbook, import and configure modules, authenticate with an Azure runbook connection, and run a script that lists resource groups in your subscription.

Learn to list resources in a resource group by an automation runbook, retrieving each resource’s name and type, and use a variable for the resource group name.

Publish and run the runbook, schedule or trigger it via ad hoc execution or a web hook, and use alerts with action group to call runbook on CPU >80%.

Demonstrates a cloud bucket app that creates containers, uploads and lists files, and downloads or deletes data, while comparing cloud storage services and addressing scalability and data isolation.

Set up a browser-based web app environment with Node.js and the Azure SDK, configure storage cross-origin resource sharing, generate a SAS, and deploy to Azure.

Write and deploy the Norges web app by coding UI actions, configuring a blob storage client and container interactions, and launching the site with parcell, while exploring UI customization.

Enhance the user interface with styling and a download button to populate a links table, and modify JavaScript to toggle visibility and enable create, upload, list, delete, and download operations.

Publish your web app by creating a tunnel from the virtual machine to the outside world using the provided package. Verify public access and note the tunnel's time-limited window.