Managing Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure - Getting Started
This course covers foundational concepts, common scenarios and best practices about managing IaaS on Microsoft Azure. The goal is to help you gain the practical skills and knowledge to be successful at your job as an Azure operations professional.
What you'll learn
This course, Managing Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure - Getting Started, equips the new Azure administrator with the skills needed to be successful deploying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) applications and services. First, you'll learn to deploy Azure virtual machines (VMs) by using the Azure Portal, Windows PowerShell, and the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI). Second, you will perform configuration management on those VMs. Last, you will learn how to enhance Azure system security and understand how to monitor and troubleshoot your Azure services. By the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge to lay the foundation for an IaaS infrastructure, including storage, networking, and security.
Table of contents
- Overview 2m
- How Do You Do Business On-premises? 3m
- The Cloud Metaphor 3m
- Cloud Infrastructure and Delivery Models 3m
- Demo: Investigate Azure Service Delivery Models 4m
- Demo: Get Started with Azure 3m
- Azure Regions 2m
- Demo: Explore Service Status and Regions 4m
- The Solution You'll Build 3m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Book and White Paper References 1m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- Which Model Is Best for Your Workload? 2m
- What You Need to Keep in Mind Concerning Azure VMs 3m
- VM Instance Types and Sizes 4m
- Demo: Plan Your VM Implementation 4m
- Demo: Scale an Azure VM up or Down 1m
- Azure Virtual Machine Resources 2m
- Demo: Deploy an Azure VM from the Portal 7m
- Demo: Deploy an Azure VM Using PowerShell 5m
- Demo: Deploy an Azure VM Using Azure CLI v2.0 2m
- Connect to Your Azure VMs 2m
- Demo: Use RDP, SSH, and PowerShell to Interact with Azure VMs 5m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Book Reference 1m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 2m
- What You Need to Think About 3m
- Azure Storage Basics 2m
- Replication Options 2m
- Demo: Investigate Azure Storage Pricing 1m
- Demo: Work with Storage Accounts 4m
- Azure VM Disk Types 2m
- Azure Storage Account Types 4m
- Host Caching 2m
- Demo: Create a Storage Account and Add a Data Disk 5m
- Demo: Capture an OS Image 6m
- Demo: Copy a Blob Between Storage Accounts 3m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 5m
- Things to Keep in Mind 2m
- Azure Load Balancers 3m
- Azure VM Configuration Options 2m
- Demo: Review Your Network Environment 4m
- Demo: VM Network Configuration 5m
- What Are VM Extensions? 2m
- Demo: Configure Your Azure VMs 3m
- Demo: Deploy a VM Extension 2m
- Demo: PowerShell-based Configuration Management 5m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 2m
- Things to Keep in Mind 2m
- Azure Maintenance Events 1m
- Fault and Update Domains 2m
- Demo: Deploy an Availability Set 3m
- Demo: Configure an Availability Set 3m
- Scale Sets 2m
- Demo: Deploy a Scale Set 5m
- Demo: Configure a Scale Set 2m
- Azure Load Balancers 3m
- Other Load Balancer Options 2m
- Demo: Investigate Azure Load Balancers 5m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- What You Need to Think About 3m
- Monitoring - A Layered Approach 2m
- Monitoring and Diagnostics Pipeline 2m
- Azure Diagnostics Data 1m
- Demo: Enable VM Diagnostics 5m
- Monitoring and OMS 3m
- Demo: Investigate Monitoring Logs 6m
- Demo: Other Diagnostics Data Sources 3m
- Alerting and Webhooks 3m
- Demo: Configure a Webhook Integration 2m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- How to Buy Azure Services 2m
- Demo: Use the Azure Pricing Calculator 3m
- The Monthly Spend - Points to Ponder 2m
- Demo: Analyze Your Azure Subscription 4m
- Demo: Manage Your Azure Subscription 4m
- Study Azure SLAs 1m
- Demo: Check Azure SLAs and Service Status 5m
- For Further Learning 1m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN. His professional specialties include Microsoft Azure, cross-platform PowerShell, and all things Windows Server-related. You can reach Tim via Twitter (@TechTrainerTim), LinkedIn or his blog, AzureDepot.com.