Azure Course Labs

Welcome to the Azure labs.

These are hands-on resources to help you learn Azure.

Pre-reqs

• Create an Azure account
• Set up the AZ command line, Git and Docker
• Download your repo
  • Open a terminal (PowerShell on Windows; any shell on Linux/macOS)
  • Run: git clone https://github.com/courselabs/azure.git
  • Open the folder: cd azure
• Optional
  • Install Visual Studio Code (free - Windows, macOS and Linux) to browse the repo and documentation

Azure Quickstart

Resource Groups and Virtual Machines

• Signing In
• Regions and Resource Groups
• Virtual Machines
• VMs as Linux Web servers
• VMs as Windows dev machines
• Automating VM configuration

SQL Databases and ARM

• SQL Server
• SQL Server VMs
• Deploying database schemas
• Automation with ARM
• Automation with Bicep

App Deployment with IaaS

• IaaS app deployment
• Automating IaaS app deployment
• Creating and using VM images
• Scaling with VM Scale Sets
• Provisiong Scale Sets with cloud-init

App Service

• App Service for web applications
• App Service for static web apps
• App Service for distributed apps
• App Service configuration and administration
• App Service CI/CD

Project

• Project 1: Lift and Shift

Storage and Communication

Storage Accounts

• Storage Accounts
• Blob storage
• File shares
• Using storage for static web content
• Working with table storage

Cosmos DB

• Cosmos DB
• Cosmos DB with the Mongo API
• Cosmos DB with the Table API
• Cosmos DB performance and billing

KeyVault and Virtual Networks

• KeyVault
• Virtual Networks
• Securing KeyVault Access
• Securing VNet Access
• Securing apps with KeyVault and VNet

Events and Messages

• Service Bus Queues
• Service Bus Topics
• Event Hubs
• Eveng Hubs partitioned consumer
• Azure Cache for Redis

Project

• Project 2: Distributed App

Compute and Containers

Docker and Azure Container Instances

• Docker 101
• Docker images and Azure Container Registry
• Azure Container Instances
• Distributed apps with Docker Compose
• Distributed apps with ACI

Kubernetes

• Nodes
• Pods
• Services
• Deployments
• ConfigMaps
• Azure Kubernetes Service

Intermediate Kubernetes

• PersistentVolumes
• AKS PersistentVolumes
• Ingress
• AKS with Application Gateway Ingress Controller
• Container Probes
• Troubleshooting

AKS Integration

• Namespaces
• Secrets
• AKS with KeyVault secrets
• Helm
• Securing AKS apps with KeyVault and VNet

Project

• Project 3: Containerized App

Serverless and App Management

Azure Functions

• HTTP trigger
• Timer trigger & blob output
• Blob trigger & SQL output
• Service Bus trigger & multiple outputs
• RabbitMQ trigger & blob output
• CosmosDB trigger & output

Durable Functions

• CI/CD for Azure Functions
• Durable functions
• Fan-out fan-in pattern
• Human interaction pattern
• Azure SignalR Service
• SignalR functions output

API Management

• API Management
• Mocking APIs
• Securing APIs with policies
• Versioning APIs for breaking changes

Web Application Firewall & CDN

• Application Gateway & WAF
• Front Door with CDN & WAF

Monitoring

• Monitoring with Application Insights
• Querying logs and metrics with Log Analytics

Project

• Project 4: Serverless Apps

Credits

Created by @EltonStoneman (sixeyed): Freelance Consultant and Trainer. Author of Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches and many Pluralsight courses.

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