Designing for High Availability on Microsoft Azure
With the Azure Cloud platform always expanding, there is no question why so many organizations are interested in extending their environment to Azure. This course will explain how to provide highly available applications using Azure Cloud services.
What you'll learn
High availability is always of great concern for any IT administrator, whether it is on-premises or using cloud services.
In this course, Designing for High Availability on Microsoft Azure, you will learn foundational knowledge of high availability using different services in Azure.
First, you will discover the Azure global infrastructure.
Next, you will learn how Azure storage replication works.
Finally, you will explore resiliency within the Azure App Service.
When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Azure Cloud services needed to provide high availability to your organization.
Table of contents
- Introduction to Azure Autoscale 2m
- Understanding Vertical Scaling 3m
- Vertical Scaling from the Azure Portal 2m
- Understanding Horizontal Scaling 2m
- Designing Autoscaling Rules 4m
- Autoscaling Virtual Machine Scale Sets 6m
- Scalability with Azure App Services 2m
- Azure Functions Hosting Plans 3m
- Module Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Understanding Azure Storage Replication 6m
- Creating a Storage Account in Azure 3m
- Virtual Machine Managed Disks 4m
- Virtual Machine Snapshots and Backups 3m
- Working with Virtual Machine Snapshots 3m
- Enabling Virtual Machine Backups 2m
- High Availability with Azure SQL Database Geo Replication 4m
- Module Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Designing for High Availability with Azure Load Balancers 3m
- Application Gateway and Traffic Manager 4m
- Extending to Azure and High Availability 3m
- Virtual Network Peering 2m
- Working with Virtual Networks and Network Security Groups 4m
- Enabling Virtual Network Peering 5m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
Working in the IT field for the last 15 years, Jean-Francois has been exchanging roles. From Systems Administrator to teaching Microsoft Official Curriculum courses as a MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) as well as a consultant providing solutions to challenging IT projects. Jean-Francois also faced IT challenges in the world of Linux, Citrix, Hyper-V, VMware, Azure and AWS. Some certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft® Certified IT Professional: Microsoft® Certified Sol... more