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Learn Azure Infrastructure and Cloud Services in 9 Hours
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Learn Azure Infrastructure and Cloud Services in 9 Hours

Design, configure, and build your cloud-based infrastructure with Microsoft Azure
Created byPackt Publishing
Last updated 2/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • This course is aimed at IT administrators, developers, and architects who wish to get started with Microsoft Azure platform and services in the cloud to leverage its benefits for their businesses.

Course content

2 sections • 48 lectures • 8h 44m total length

  • The Course Overview6:57

    This video will an overview on the entire course

  • Cloud Computing Acronyms and Concepts10:06

    In this video, we are going to take a look at several Cloud Computing Acronyms and Concepts.

    • Understand Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud

    • Get to know IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DRaaS, and BaaS

    • Describe several cloud computing characteristics (Scalability, High Availability, Cost, Pay per use,…)

  • Microsoft Azure Overview16:36

    This video gives a high-level overview of the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform.

    • Know the concepts of the Microsoft Azure datacenters

    • Get an overview of Microsoft Azure components and Services

    • Understand the different Azure platforms, Azure Service Manager, and Azure Resource Manager

  • Azure Subscriptions7:28

    This video will an overview on the entire course

  • Deploying an Azure Trial Subscription8:05

    In this video, we are going to take a look at what it takes to deploy an Azure trial subscription.

    • Get free trial subscription details

    • Know the description of 'other' free Azure resources that you can use without a cost

    • Watch a walk through demo on how to set up your trial Azure environment

  • Exploring the Azure Portals7:27

    This video will an overview on the entire course.

    • Understand what lists are

    • See when lists are used

    • Learn how to perform data manipulation with lists

  • Azure Management Tools14:12

    In this video, we are going to take a look at the main differences between the Azure Classic Portal and the Azure Resource Manager Portal.

    • Explore the Azure Classic Portal

    • Explore the Azure Resource Manager Portal

    • Watch a demo on Azure portals

  • Azure VM Architectural Design14:24

    In this video, we are going to take a look at the following: (a) Azure Resource Groups (b)Azure Virtual Network (c)Azure Storage Azure Virtual Machines.

    • Get to know what are Resource Groups and how to architect them

    • Understand the different Azure Storage accounts and their characteristics, and the highlights of Azure VNets

    • Know the Azure Virtual Machine sizes and different images available today

  • Deploying Your First Azure Virtual Machine8:53
  • Deploying a More Complex Azure VM Architecture15:22

    This video has three main sections, helping you in understanding how to deploy more complex Azure VM architectures. It will make clear most of the deployment process in Azure relies on automation and scripts.

    • Explain the Azure MarketPlace templates

    • Uncover the GitHub Azure QuickStart templates

    • Use Visual Studio to automate your Azure VM architecture deployment process

  • Handling Azure VM High Availability9:03

    In this video, we discuss two prime features of Azure public cloud, allowing for a high available Azure VM architecture.

    • Explain Azure Virtual Machine High Availability SLAs

    • Get to know what are Azure Availability Sets and why to use them

    • Demo walk through configuring Azure Availability Sets

  • Deploying Azure Resources from Community Templates8:57
  • Creating Your Own Customized ARM Templates5:04

    This video is all about learning to build your own customized Azure ARM templates from Visual Studio

    • Get an overview of the creation process in Visual Studio

    • Demo walk through on how to create an Azure ARM template out of Visual Studio

    • Deploy Azure Resources using automation

  • Automating Azure VM Deployment Using Configuration Management17:50

    In this video, we are going to take a look at what Azure VM Configuration Management means, discussing several of these Configuration Management tools, describing PowerShell DSC, Azure VM Extensions, and highlighting Chef and Puppet

    • Learn the different definitions of Configuration Management and several well-known Configuration Management tools

    • Get an overview of PowerShell DSC and VM Extensions in general and observe a demo on PowerShell DSC

    • Do a walk through of Chef and Puppet

  • Deploying Azure Active Directory8:20
  • Integrating On-Premises Active Directory with Azure AD9:18
  • Advanced Features of Azure Active Directory3:42

    In this video, I'll discuss several advanced features of Azure Active Directory

    • Understand Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

    • Know the company branding

    • Get know what is advanced reporting

  • Integrating Azure AD with SaaS Applications9:02
  • Integrating Azure AD with SaaS Applications6:30

    In this video, we are going to take a look at the current issue with using multiple identities and where Azure Active Directory can be of help.

    • Understand the challenges with SaaS applications and authentication handling

    • Get to know the use of Azure Active Directory help in optimization and streamlining cloud authentication and identity

    • Understand what is the Azure Access Panel and how to enable and use it

  • Azure Built-In Monitoring10:12

    In this video, we are going to take a look at several concepts around Azure monitoring and diagnostics

    • Get to know the built-in monitoring features Azure provides

    • Understand Azure Service Health and Azure Boot Diagnostics

    • Learn how to configure alert notifications and customize your monitoring

  • Operations Management Suite11:41

    Even with several built-in monitoring and diagnostics features, Azure is sometimes limited in output, especially in a hybrid or enterprise oriented environment. That's where Operations Management Suite (OMS) comes to the rescue!

    • Understand what is Operations Management Suite (OMS) and how to deploy it

    • Extend Operations Management Suite with Solution Packs

    • Use OMS Log Search and Log Analytics

  • Implementing Azure Backup for Azure VMs11:54

    Backup is still a vital point in providing a system's high availability and disaster recovery, even when running as a public cloud virtual machine. While the Azure platform provides excellent uptime compared to most on-premises datacenters, one should not forget to take backup into account.

    • Understand why we use backups for Azure Virtual Machines

    • Know how to configure Azure Backups of Azure VMs, as well as how to restore an Azure VM

    • Demo walk through the backup and restore operation

  • Implementing Azure Backup (Hybrid)10:15

    This video will teach you all about using Azure backup in a hybrid topology setup, mainly using Azure Backup solution as a target for your on-premises backups.

    • Get to know what does it take to use Azure as a backup target

    • Deploy Azure Backup (agent-based) and deploy Azure Backup Server

    • Watch a demo on implementing Azure backup in a hybrid scenario

  • Azure Site Recovery (ASR) in Hyper-V and Non-Hyper-V Scenarios21:41

    Azure Site Recovery (ASR) provides organizations with a true disaster/recovery solution for VM workloads, no matter where they are running. Using an intelligent "write change" replication, an async copy of your VMs are available in Azure and provide RPO/RTO of minutes instead of hours in most other DR solutions.

    • Understand what is Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

    • Deploy ASR for Hyper-V workloads

    • Deploy ASR for non-Hyper-V workloads (Amazon AWS, VMware, Azure Classic VMs, and physical servers)

  • Deploying SQL VM Solutions5:53

    This video is oriented around using the Azure infrastructure (IaaS) platform, to deploy Virtual Machines running SQL Server.

    • Know what SQL Server VM Solutions can be deployed in Azure

    • Understand how to deploy SQL Server VM solutions from an Azure ARM template

    • Watch a demo on how to deploy SQL Server VM from a template in the Azure Portal

  • Creating a SQL Azure DB Solution (PaaS)8:45

    This video explains the core concepts of using SQL Azure hosted databases, relying on the PaaS aspect of Azure platform. Hosting SQL databases in Azure gives you a lot of flexibility and scalability out of the box, which makes it an ideal candidate for public cloud.

    • Understand what are the main differences between SQL Server VM and SQL Azure

    • Deploy a SQL Azure database solution

    • Explain Azure SQL Database Tiers

  • Managing SQL Server and Databases Running in Azure4:24

    This video combines the management aspect of SQL databases, irrelevant from where they are running (on-premises, in-Azure VMs, or in-Azure PaaS)

    • Learn how to manage SQL Server VM solutions running in Azure

    • Learn what it takes to manage your SQL Azure hosted databases

    • Demo

  • SQL Database (Backup and Restore)4:39

    This video details the flexibility of using Azure for storing your SQL database backups.

    • Get to know how to integrate SQL Server VM Solutions' backups with Azure

    • Understand how to manage SQL Azure database backups

    • Watch a demo on SQL backup and restore with the help of Azure platform services

  • Azure Web Apps and Plans – An Overview3:55

    This video is part of a larger section, in which you'll learn about Azure platform services. The key components you'll see are Web Apps, Mobile Apps, and Logic Apps. This first video focuses on Azure Web Apps and how to deploy and manage them.

    • Get an overview of Azure Web Apps and Web Apps Services

    • Understand why we use Azure Web Apps

    • Get to know the different Azure Web Apps plans available today

  • Deploying Web Apps8:05

    In this video, we are going to take a look at what it takes to deploy Azure Web Apps.

    • Learn to deploy Azure Web Apps from the Azure Portal

    • Learn to deploy Azure Web Apps from Visual Studio

    • Learn the different ways to publish Web App content

  • Configuring Azure Web Apps Settings8:30

    This video is all about the configuration settings of an Azure Web App (and thus all other Azure App services if you want).

    • Configure the Web Apps general settings

    • Configure Web Apps authentication and authorization

    • Perform Web Apps backups and manage SSL certificates

  • Azure Web Apps Monitoring and Diagnostics7:35

    We already discussed Azure monitoring and diagnostics in a previous video; but this one is specifically around Azure App Services monitoring

    • Monitor Azure App Services from the Azure Resource Manager Portal

    • Use specific monitoring and diagnostics for Azure Web Apps

    • Uncover Azure Application Insights

  • Building Scalable Web App Solutions6:20

    Deploying Azure Web Apps shouldn't always be that hard. But for most enterprises the challenge is keeping up with performance, which is a huge business driver for migrating your web applications to a public cloud platform such as Azure.

    • Use Staging and Production deployment slots (Continuous Integration/(CI))

    • Use Continuous Deployment (CD)

    • Explain the scaling features per App Tier

  • Introduction to Azure PaaS Solutions3:00

    In this video, we will highlight several of the common Azure PaaS components, which basically means stepping away from managing the underlying infrastructure side of the Azure datacenters.

    • Get to know what is PaaS and how to describe it

    • Get an overview of Microsoft Azure PaaS Services and components

    • Explain PaaS characteristics

  • Azure Queue Storage and Table Storage5:41

    This video will teach you all about using Azure Storage Account components, specifically around application integration.

    • Understand the Azure queue storage

    • Know the Azure table storage

    • Secure the storage account integration from your applications

  • Introduction to Azure Machine Learning4:48

    Azure Machine Learning (ML) allows organizations to run high density, high volume based calculations and predictions. It is often used in an industrial or scientific context.

    • Understand why to use Machine Learning

    • Understand Azure solutions enabling data science

    • Get to know the Azure Machine Learning process and algorithms

  • Azure Non-SQL Database Solutions and Cache8:44

    We already discussed SQL database on Azure in a previous video. But SQL Server is not the only database technology available on Azure, as you will learn from this video.

    • Get an overview of DocumentDB and MongoDB as non-SQL database solutions

    • Get an introduction to MySQL and how to use it within Azure

    • Get an overview of Redis Cache and how to use it

  • Azure IOT Solutions and Components11:09

    IOT (short for Internet of Things) is becoming a very important topic in the IT space, and basically in about any industrial segment. By connecting devices to the Internet, they become 'smarter.' In this video, I'll describe the different aspects of IOT, and how it relates to Azure.

    • Get to know why is Internet of Things (IOT) a big thing, and about IOT devices

    • Understand the Azure IOT reference architecture

    • Know the Azure Event Hub, IOT Hub, and Azure Stream Analytics

  • Azure Security Center7:16

    In this last video, I'll talk about Azure security features, and more specifically about the "Azure Security Center." This is a centralized dashboard, giving you real-detailed information and views on all-things security in your Azure environment.

    • Get to know what is Azure Security Center

    • Deploy Azure Security Center

    • Watch a demo on using Azure Security Center

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of Microsoft Azure will be an added advantage.

Description

Cloud Computing has changed the way you look at and understand the IT infrastructure. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including those for compute, analytics, storage, and networking. You can pick and choose from these services to develop and scale new applications, or run existing applications, in the public cloud. If you wish to dive into cloud development and management to design, configure, and build your cloud-based infrastructure using various services offered by Microsoft Azure, then go for this course.

This course equips you with the practical know-how of managing various Azure Services for effective business over the cloud. You will be taken through the fundamentals of Azure for effective cloud computing. You will then learn how to implement the Azure Virtual Machine and see how you can deploy, configure, and manage Azure Web Apps that connect you to the cloud. You will also learn to use Azure PaaS, machine learning, database solutions, disaster recovery, as well as monitoring and diagnosing Azure insights. Next, you will learn to design Azure Virtual Networking architectures, both within Azure and for Hybrid scenarios. Finally, you will delve into platform monitoring solutions that Azure provides, by zooming in on Operations Management Suite, Azure Monitor, and Azure Log Analytics.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Learning Microsoft Azure, starts off with a brief introduction to cloud computing with Azure and then dive into the fundamental steps such as exploring the Azure portal and managing the Azure platform. You will then learn to implement the Azure Virtual Machine, and work with Resource Manager. You will also explore the Azure SQL Server Database, followed by seeing how to deploy, configure, and manage Azure Web Apps that connect you to the cloud. Next, you will learn to use Azure PaaS, machine learning, and database solutions, as well as monitoring and diagnosing Azure insights. Finally, you will learn performing disaster recovery with Azure.

In the second course, Architecting an Azure Compute Infrastructure, you will learn designing Azure Virtual Networking architectures, both within Azure and for Hybrid scenarios. You will then learn in-depth about Azure Virtual Machines. You will also learn how to architect high-availability setups for Azure VM workloads. Finally, you will learn about the platform monitoring solutions that Azure provides.

By the end of this course, you will be able to design, configure, and build your cloud-based infrastructure using various services offered by Microsoft Azure.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

Peter De Tender is the CEO and Lead Technical Trainer at PDTIT and 007FFFLearning, a Microsoft Cloud Platform Architect, extremely passionate trainer and speaker, Azure MVP (2013-2018), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and technical writer. Starting his career in 1996, Peter has never looked back from Microsoft infrastructure technologies. At present, he’s an expert on Azure and Azure Stack, coaching global Microsoft Partners, larger Microsoft customers and Microsoft FTE teams, all over the world, in achieving more with Azure. While this got him a position as FTE for Microsoft Corp in the global Microsoft AzureCAT GSI (Azure Engineering) team early 2016, his passion for speaking and presenting made him decide to return to his own company after about a year, coming back with an even stronger focus on providing readiness workshops and architect consulting on the Azure platform. When Peter is not speaking or presenting, he authors Azure-related white papers and courses for Microsoft as well as several other training companies in the IT industry, or updating his own custom Azure Advanced training material.

Who this course is for:

  • Implement Azure Infrastructure components (storage, networking, virtual Machines)
  • Understand the basics of automated deployments from Azure Resource Manager Templates
  • Explore the various Azure Platform services (web Apps, machine learning, and databases) and learn how to deploy them
  • Understand Azure monitoring solutions
  • Discover Azure Disaster Recovery solutions
  • Get well-versed with the Azure SQL Server database
  • Know the benefits of deploying Virtual Machine workloads on Azure
  • Deploy Azure Virtual Machines from the Azure Marketplace, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and automation ARM templates
  • Perform monitoring and diagnostics for Azure VM workloads

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