
This lecture provides you introduction to key outcomes, scope and structure of the course.
By the end of this lecture, you will be able to configure some settings in Udemy portal to improve your course taking experience.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of key network services that you can use to deliver highly available, secure and stable networking solution on Azure.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of what Azure virtual network is all about and its different capabilities.
By the end of this lab, you will be to create virtual network and subnets in Azure.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to deploy virtual machine into Azure virtual network.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understating of Network security groups, security rules, service tags and application security group.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to create NSG and configure inbound rules and associate the same at subnet level and VM level
By the end of this lab, you will be able to allow communication from your web server to Azure storage service in a particular location.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure network security group rule using Application security groups.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of service end points and policies.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to create service endpoints, service endpoint policies and resource firewall.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of network interfaces, IP addresses and host name resolution in Azure
By the end of this lab demo, you will be create a NIC, add IP configuration to the same, associate the NIC to virtual machine and RDP into VM using new public IP address.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understating of route tables, default routes, custom routes and route determination.
By the end of this lab, you will be route the traffic from web servers to app servers via a network virtual appliance.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of following Azure services that you can use to deliver high availability solution on Azure
Traffic manager
Load balancer
Application gateway
Availability zones
Availability sets
By the end of this lab, you will be able to create availability zones and sets and deploy web severs into the same.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of key capabilities and components of Azure load balancer and key differences between basic and standard tiers.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to create Azure load balancer using Azure portal and know about important settings related to the same.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure inbound NAT rule to allow RDP traffic into Web Severs using Load balancer front end IP address.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure following things in load balancer and test configuration.
Create a backend pool to include two web servers.
Create a health probe
Create a load balancer rule to distribute traffic between web servers in backend pool
Test the configuration
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure outbound NAT rule to use load balancer front end IP for outbound communication from web servers in the backend pool of load balancer.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of Azure Application gateway and its key capabilities.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to create Azure Application Gateway, add two web servers into backend pool and distribute the incoming http traffic evenly between two web servers.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure URL path based routing in Application gateway
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure multi site hosting on Azure Application Gateway
By the end of this lab, you will be enable to Web Application Firewall in Application gateway, configure prevention and detection mode, configure advanced rule configuration, simulate XSS attack, enable diagnostic firewall logs and view the firewall logs.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of Traffic manager, different routing methods that you can use, different end points you can configure and monitoring of end points.
By the end of this lab demo, you will be able to create Traffic manager, configure performance based routing method, create two web apps in two different regions and add them as end points in traffic manager profile and finally test the routing method.
By the end of this lab demo, you will be able to configure priority and weight based routing methods and bring down one end point and check whether traffic is getting re-routed to another end point.
By the end of this lab demo, you will be able to configure nested end points and use those end points to route the traffic to right end point based on user location (in terms of least network latency)
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of different ways you can connect virtual networks and in detail about VNet peering.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure VNet peering between a Hub virtual network and two Spoke virtual networks.
By the end of this lecture, you will be able to gain understanding of VPN gateway and its key configuration settings and different topologies that you can achieve using VPN gateway.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to configure P2S VPN and test the connectivity.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to carry out following activities.
Create an AWS VPC, Subnet and EC2 instance in VPC
Create a customer gateway in AWS
Create a virtual private gateway in AWS
Create a site to site connection between customer gateway and virtual private gateway
Create an Azure VNet, subnet and deploy VM into VNet
Create a local network gateway in Azure
Create a VPN gateway in Azure
Create a site to site connection between local network gateway and virtual private gateway
Finally test the connectivity between AWS EC2 instance and Azure VM
In this lecture, I have explained about express route, connectivity models and routing domains.
In this lecture, i will take you through steps of ordering express route circuit, creation of Azure private peering and VNet integration.
By the end of this lecture, you will understand about Azure App service plan, pricing tiers and web apps
By the end of this lecture, you will understand about app service environment (ASE), when it should be used, components of app service environments and deployment models of ASE
By the end of this lecture, you will know the different places where solution components are located in hybrid solutions and different options available to establish network connectivity between those locations.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to establish P2S VPN between app service and Virtual network and also test the connection
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of internal and external ASE and different network considerations that needs to be taken into account with respect to ASE.
By the end of this lecture, you will gain understanding of hybrid connections, how they work and benefits & limitations of hybrid connections.
By the end of this lab, you will be able to establish hybrid connection between app service and a http end point located in a virtual network. You will also able to download and install hybrid connection manager.
01 - 08 - 2019: New lectures on Network monitoring ( Network watcher, Traffic analytics & Network performance monitor) and Azure DNS has been added.
Microsoft Azure is the fastest growing cloud platform in the world. One of the key building blocks of Microsoft Azure is its network services. This course is designed to help you to build strong foundation & provide hands on experience in Microsoft Azure network services.
This course covers azure network skills required for AZ 300 and 103 Microsoft certification exams
This course has been designed with an architectural approach. Firstly I will give you an overview of Azure network services architecture and after this introduction, I will take you through following azure services
Virtual network & subnets - 10,000 feet overview of Azure Network services; Create virtual networks & subnets and deploy a VM into virtual network.
Filter traffic - Network security group - Create network security group(NSG), create inbound & outbound rules, apply them at subnet levels, deploy the virtual machines in subnets and test NSG rules. Configure NSG rules using Application security groups and service tags.
Route traffic - NIC, IP Addresses, User defined routes - Understand public and private IP addresses; Network Interfaces; Adding multiple NICs to VM and Multiple IP configurations; Create and configure user defined routes.
High availability services - Create and configure availability sets, Zone services and Zonal services.
Load balancer - Configuration of frontend IP configuration, backend pool creation, health probes creation, configure load balancing rules, configure NAT rules, automatic reconfiguration & monitoring of the load balancer
Application gateway - Creation of application gateway, HTTP traffic load balancing, URL path based routing, multi site hosting, enable web application firewall and test the same, monitoring of application gateway
Traffic manager - Creation of traffic manager profile, add end points, load balance traffic based on performance, priority, weight and geographic routing methods.
Connectivity scenarios - Configure point to site VPN connection, VPN - VPN connection, Site to site VPN connection, Azure apps connection with VMs on Azure and finally connect Azure virtual network with Amazon web services virtual private cloud
Delivering hybrid solutions/applications connectivity - Introduction to App service plan and App service environment; Hybrid applications/solutions connectivity options; Lab demo on P2S VPN connectivity with Azure app service;App service environment connectivity; Introduction to hybrid connections; Lab demo on Hybrid connections and Hybrid connections manager.
Network security - Introduction to network security controls, implementation of Azure firewall in hub and spoke model, implementation of network security & application security groups, configuration of service end points and policies, introduction to remote access management options and implementation of Windows Admin centre to remote desktop into Azure VM.
Network Monitoring - Introduction to Azure network monitoring and diagnostics; Use Network watcher tools to diagnose network related issues; Introduction to network performance monitor capabilities ; Setup, configure and use performance monitor & service connectivity monitor.
DNS - Introduction to Azure Public and Private DNS. Create Azure Public DNS zone and delegate domain into Azure. Create a private DNS and connect virtual networks and create custom domain labels to VMs.
This course contains both theory lectures and a significant number of labs that helps you in gaining hands-on experience in key Azure network related services.
Microsoft Azure is a constantly evolving platform and I will be keep close watch on Azure announcements and add new labs wherever possible.
So, start taking this course and put yourself in high demand in the world of IT and command higher salary!!!