Play by Play: Elastic Scale and Consistency with Azure Automation DSC
In this course, you will learn the common problems that elastic and consistent scaling can solve. You will take a step into the DevOps process and learn how to build an infrastructure with ARM Templates, how to scale the Virtual Machines created by those templates, and how to apply DSC configurations to those virtual machines.
What you'll learn
If you're in search of a way to automatically configure servers consistently and scale those servers and services based on customer demand, then Azure Automation DSC is your answer. In this course, you will learn the common problems that elastic and consistent scaling can solve. You will take a step into the DevOps process and learn how to build an infrastructure with ARM Templates, how to scale the Virtual Machines created by those templates, and how to apply DSC configurations to those virtual machines. You will also learn about the monitoring and logging technologies so that no information is lost during scaling by using Operations Management Suite (OMS).
Table of contents
- Introduction 3m
- What Business Problems Does Elastic Scaling Consistency Solve? 10m
- Creating Functional DSC Documentation 8m
- Building a DSC Infrastructure with ARM Templates 12m
- Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) Automation 8m
- ARM Template Walkthrough 8m
- Deploying an ARM Template with VMSS Automation 6m
- Azure Management Tools and Operations Management Suite (OMS) 7m
- Conclusion 4m
About the authors
Jason Helmick is an author for Pluralsight. His IT career spans more than 25 years or enterprise consulting on a variety of technologies, with a focus on strategic IT business planning. He’s a highly successful IT author, columnist, lecturer, and instructor, specializing in automation practices for the IT pro. Jason is a leader in the IT professional community, and serves as board member and COO/CFO of PowerShell.Org. Jason’s publications include Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches, and he h... more