Microsoft Azure
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About Azure
Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform. Move faster, do more and save money with IaaS + PaaS
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
- Productive
- Hybrid
- Intelligent
- Trusted
Azure Topics
The following are the things covered under Azure.
Webapps
Create a static HTML web app in Azure
Virtual Machines
Create a Linux virtual machine in the Azure portal
Serverless Environment
Create your first function in the Azure portal
Microservices
Create and deploy an application with an ASP.NET Core Web API front-end service and a stateful back-end service
Container Services
Azure Container Service with DC/OS and Swarm Documentation
Azure Application Architecture Guide
The cloud is changing the way applications are designed. Instead of monoliths, applications are decomposed into smaller, decentralized services. These services communicate through APIs or by using asynchronous messaging or eventing. Applications scale horizontally, adding new instances as demand requires.
Course Contents
The following are the course contents offered for Azure
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Software as a Service
- What is Azure
- Azure as an intelligent Cloud
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure Resource Manager architecture
- ARM and ASM
- ARM advantages
- ARM concepts
- Resource providers
- Resource types
- Resource groups
- Resource and resource instances
- Azure Resource Manager features
- Virtualization
- Containers
- Docker
- Interacting with the intelligent Cloud
- The Azure portal
- PowerShell
- Azure command-line interface
- Azure REST API
- Azure Resource Manager templates
- Deployments
- Service models
- Deployment models
- Cloud characteristics
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure services overview
- Azure basics
- Azure Resource Manager
- Resources
- Azure regions
- Azure Portal
- Azure automation
- Azure Automation tools
- REST APIs
- Understanding the Azure resource manager
- Functionalities provided by the Azure resource manager
- Working with the Azure resource manager
- Creating an Azure resource group
- Adding a resource to an Azure resource group
- First approach - adding a storage account to your Azure resource group
- Second approach - adding a storage account to your Azure resource group
- Third approach - adding a storage account to your Azure resource group
- Tagging in the Azure resource manager
- Locking Azure resources
- Azure resource locks
- Working with ARM templates
- Exporting a deployment as an ARM template (for IT pros)
- Example 1: exporting a resource group to an ARM template
- Example 2: exporting a resource (from the deployment history) to an ARM template
- Example 3: exporting a resource (classic) to an ARM template
- Modifying an ARM template
- Authoring an ARM template
- Creating your own ARM template (for developers)
- Azure resource explorer
- Azure networking limits
- Azure networking components
- Azure virtual networks (VNet)
- VNet peering
- Azure VPN gateways
- Azure local gateway
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure global Points of Presence
- National Azure Points of Presence
- Azure connections
- Azure routes
- Azure third-party network devices
- Azure load balancer
- Hash-based distribution
- Port forwarding
- Automatic reconfiguration
- Service monitoring
- Azure application gateways
- Azure Traffic Manager
- Azure DNS
- Setting up Azure networks
- Setting up Azure VNet
- Setting up Azure virtual network site-to-site VPN
- Configuring local network gateway
- Configuring Azure virtual network gateway
- Configuring connection between local and virtual network gateways
- Setting up Azure virtual network with MPLS and ExpressRoute
- Configuring Azure virtual network gateway
- Configuring Azure ExpressRoute circuit
- Configuring connection between ExpressRoute circuit and Azure virtual gateway
- Setting up Azure VNet peering
- Storage accounts
- General purpose Storage account
- Blob Storage account
- Replication and redundancy
- Locally redundant storage
- Zone-redundant storage
- Geo-redundant storage
- Read-access geo-redundant storage
- Azure Storage services
- Blob Storage services
- Table storage services
- Queue storage services
- File storage services
- Access keys
- Exploring Azure Storage with Azure Storage Explorer
- Premium Storage account
- Premium storage requirements
- Pricing
- Deploy workloads on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) virtual machines (VMs)
- Identify workloads that can and cannot be deployed
- run workloads including Microsoft and Linux
- create VMs
- connect to a Windows/Linux VM
- Automate configuration management by using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and VM Agent (custom script extensions)
- configure VMs using a configuration management tool such as Puppet or Chef
- enable remote debugging
- Configure disk caching
- plan storage capacity
- configure operating system disk redundancy
- configure shared storage using Azure File service
- configure geo-replication
- encrypt disks
- implement ARM VMs with Standard and Premium Storage
- Configure multiple ARM VMs in an availability set for redundancy
- configure each application tier into separate availability sets
- combine the Load Balancer with availability sets
- Scale up and scale down VM sizes
- deploy ARM VM Scale Sets (VMSS)
- configure ARM VMSS auto-scale
- Implement Azure storage blobs and Azure files
- Read data
- change data
- set metadata on a container
- store data using block and page blobs
- stream data using blobs
- access blobs securely
- implement async blob copy
- configure a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- design blob hierarchies
- configure custom domains
- scale blob storage
- Create and manage shared access signatures
- use stored access policies
- regenerate keys
- Set retention policies and logging levels
- analyse logs
- Choose the appropriate database tier and performance level
- configure point-in-time recovery
- geo-replication and data sync
- import and export data and schema
- design a scaling strategy
- Create a backup vault
- deploy a backup agent
- back up and restore data
- Planning and Deploying Virtual Machines in Azure
- Azure virtual machine types
- A-series virtual machines
- D-series and DS-series virtual machines
- F-series and FS-series virtual machines
- G-series and GS-series virtual machines
- H-series virtual machines
- NV-series and NC-series virtual machines
- NV virtual machines
- NC virtual machines
- Ls-series virtual machines
- Virtual machine extensions
- Managed Disks
- Availability sets
- Deploying a virtual machine in Azure
- Accessing a virtual machine in Azure
- Changing IP and DNS settings
- Common scenarios for virtual machines
- Optimization of Azure related communication traffic
- On-demand usage for calculations
- Disaster recovery for on-premises servers
- What is an Azure Container Service?
- Understanding containers
- Cluster
- Orchestrator
- Mesosphere DC/OS
- Docker swarm
- Kubernetes
- Creating your first Azure Container Service
- How to work with your Azure container service cluster
- Design Azure architecture using Azure services
- such as Azure AD
- Azure App Service
- API Management
- Azure Cache
- Azure Search
- Service Bus
- Event Hubs
- Stream Analytics and IoT Hub
- identify the appropriate use of Azure Machine Learning
- big data
- Azure Media Services and Azure Search services
- Azure Identity Security
- Identity protection
- Azure disk encryption
- Logging and monitoring
- Azure Logs
- File-Oriented Storage
- Blob Storage
- Azure Data Lake Store
- HDFS
- Queue-Oriented Storage
- Event Hubs
- IoT Hub
- Design data storage
- Design storage options for data
- including Table Storage
- SQL Database
- DocumentDB
- Blob Storage
- MongoDB and MySQL
- design security options for SQL Database or Azure Storage
- Select the appropriate storage for performance
- Design an application storage and data access strategy
- Design data storage
- Design storage options for data
- including Table Storage
- SQL Database
- DocumentDB
- Blob Storage
- MongoDB and MySQL
- design security options for SQL Database or Azure Storage
- Prerequisites
- Create an Azure Cosmos DB account
- Set up your Visual Studio solution
- Add references to your project
- Connect your app
- Instantiate the DocumentClient
- Create a database
- Decide on a partition key
- Create a collection
- Create JSON documents
- Read data
- Update data
- Delete data
- Query partitioned collections
- Parallel query execution
- Execute stored procedures
- Clean up resources
- Create a database account
- Update your connection string
- Set up your MongoDB app
- Clean up resources
- Tables in Azure Cosmos DB
- Prerequisites
- Create a database account
- Clone the sample application
- Update your connection string
- Build and deploy the app
- Azure Cosmos DB capabilities
- Create the table client
- Create a table
- Add an entity to a table
- Insert a batch of entities
- Retrieve a single entity
- Query entities using automatic secondary indexes
- Replace an entity
- Delete an entity
- Delete a table
- Clean up resources
- Graphs in Azure Cosmos DB
- Prerequisites
- Create database account
- Set up your Visual Studio solution
- Connect your app
- Instantiate the DocumentClient
- Create a database
- Create a graph
- Serialize vertices and edges to .NET objects
- Run Gremlin using CreateGremlinQuery
- Add vertices and edges
- Query the graph
- Clean up resources
- Prerequisites
- Find your connection string information (host
- Import data to the API for MongoDB by using mongoimport
- Import data to the API for MongoDB by using mongorestore
- Guide for a successful migration
- Introduction to the Family of SQL Server Products
- Introduction to the Family Continued
- Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP)
- What is Parallel Processing?
- The Basics of a Single Computer
- Data in Memory is Fast as Lightning
- Parallel Processing of Data
- A Table has Columns and Rows
- The Azure SQL Data Warehouse has Linear Scalability
- The Architecture of the Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Nexus is now Available on the Microsoft Azure Cloud
- The MPP Engine is the Optimizer
- The Azure SQL Data Warehouse System
- The Azure SQL Data Warehouse System is Scalable
- Software as a Service (SaaS) and the Elastic Database
- Azure Disaster Recovery
- Security and Compliance
- How to Get an EXPLAIN Plan
- Stream Processing
- Consuming Messages from Event Hubs
- Tuple-at-a-Time Processing in Azure
- Introducing HDInsight
- Storm on HDInsight
- EventProcessorHost
- Azure Machine Learning
- Micro-Batch Processing in Azure
- Spark Streaming on HDInsight
- Storm on HDInsight
- Azure Stream Analytics
- Batch Processing with MapReduce on HDInsight
- Batch Processing with Hive on HDInsight
- Internal and External Tables
- Partitioning Tables
- Views
- Indexes
- Databases
- Using Hive on HDInsight
- Storage on HDInsight
- Batch Processing Data
- Creating an External Table
- Creating an Internal Table
- Batch Processing with Pig on HDInsight
- Batch Processing with Spark on HDInsight
- Batch Processing with Data Lake Analytics
- Processing with U-SQL
- Batch Processing with Azure Batch
- Orchestrating Batch Processing Pipelines with Azure Data Factory
- Azure Redis Cache
- Redis in the Speed Serving Layer
- Document DB
- SQL Database
- SQL Database in the Speed Serving Layer
- SQL Database in the Batch Serving Layer
- SQL Data Warehouse
- HBase on HDInsight
- Azure Search
- Managing Metadata with Azure Data Catalog
- Data Catalog in the Airports Scenario
- Add an Azure Data Lake Store Asset
- Add Azure Storage Blobs
- Add a SQL Data Warehouse
- Analytics with Power BI
- Batch Analytics Reporting with Power BI in the Scenario
- Understanding billing
- Invoicing
- Enterprise agreement customers
- Usage and quotas
- Resource providers
- Usage and billing API
- Azure pricing models
- Azure hybrid benefits
- Azure reserved VM instances
- Pay-as-you-go accounts
- Enterprise agreements
- Cloud Solution Provider
- Azure pricing calculator
- Best practices
- Compute best practices
- Storage best practices
- PaaS best practices
- General best practices
- Summary
- Monitoring and Auditing
- Monitoring
- Azure monitoring
- Azure activity logs
- Azure diagnostic logs
- Azure application logs
- Guest and host OS logs
- Azure monitor
- Azure application insights
- Azure log analytics
- Application insights
- Provisioning
- Log analytics
- Provisioning
- OMS agents
- Search
- Solutions
- Alerts
- Executing runbooks on Alerts
- Azure Machine Learning
- R Server on HDInsight
- SQL R Services
- Microsoft Cognitive Services
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Machine learning tasks
- Azure functions runtime
- Azure function runtime
- Azure function binding and triggers
- Azure function proxies
- Monitoring
- Authentication and authorization
- Azure function configuration
- Platform configuration
- App services function settings
- Azure function cost plans
- Azure functions advantages
- Scalability
- Scalability versus performance
- Azure scalability
- Concepts
- Scaling
- Scaling up
- Scaling down
- Scaling out
- Scaling in
- Auto scaling
- PaaS scalability
- PaaS scaling up and down
- PaaS scaling out and in
- IaaS scalability
- Virtual machine scale sets
- VMSS architecture
- VMSS scaling
- Horizontal versus vertical scaling
- Capacity
- Auto scaling
- Upgrades
- Application updates
- Guest updates
- Image updates
- Scaling best practices
- Prefer scaling out
- Bare metal versus dormant instances
- Configuring maximum and minimum number of instances appropriately
- Concurrency
- Stateless
- Caching and CDN
- N+1 design
- Azure portal
- PowerShell
- Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Azure REST API
- Azure Resource Manager templates
- Deployments
- Azure zones and regions
- Availability of resources
- Data and privacy compliance
- Performance of applications
- Cost of running applications
- Virtual network
- Architectural considerations for virtual networks
- Benefits of virtual networks
- Virtual network design
- Connecting to resources within the same region and subscription
- Connecting to resources within the same region in another subscription
- Connecting to resources in different regions in another subscription
- Connecting to on-premise data centers
- Storage
- Storage categories
- Storage types
- Storage features
- Architectural considerations for storage accounts
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