Master Azure administration: identity, networking, security, storage, and virtual machines
Migrating to Azure or consolidating its use without understanding how it works is taking unnecessary risks. Identity, governance, networking, storage, virtual machines, monitoring: the Azure ecosystem is vast and has many interdependencies. This training offers a complete overview of an Azure administrator's responsibilities, with practical demonstrations that anchor the concepts in real-world cloud administration scenarios.
Is it for you ?
Computer scientists.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of virtualization technologies, network services, Active Directory concepts, and resiliency and disaster recovery including backup and recovery operations is required.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Configure and manage Azure resources (networking, storage, virtual machines) with confidence
- ✓ Master the platform's security, governance, and compliance aspects
- ✓ Monitor and protect cloud infrastructure proactively
Training content
1 Azure Active Directory
- Overview and concepts
- Differences between Azure Active Directory and Active Directory Domain Services
- Azure AD editions
- Device binding
- The password reset service
- Demonstration - Enabling the password reset service
- Create and manage user accounts
- Create and manage groups
- Managing multiple Azure AD tenants
- Demo - Creating a new Azure AD tenant
2 Governance and compliance
- Azure regions
- Azure subscriptions
- Administration groups
- Cost management and optimization
- Tags
- Policies in Azure, initiatives, policy definitions and extensions
- Demonstration - Creating an Azure policy
- Overview of RBAC roles
- Overview of Azure AD roles
- Differences between RBAC roles and Azure AD roles
- Demo - Assigning an RBAC role
3 Azure Administration
- Resource manager and terminology
- Resource groups
- Locking resources (locks)
- Moving or deleting resources in Azure
- Demonstration - Moving a resource in Azure
- The Azure portal
- The Cloud Shell
- Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI
- The ARM templates
- Demo - Installing the Az module and running PowerShell scripts
4 Azure virtual networks
- Virtual networks
- Subnets
- Demo - Creating an Azure virtual network
- Private and public IPs
- Network security groups
- The Azure firewall
- Custom domain names
- Demo - Adding and verifying a custom domain name
- Public DNS zones
- Private DNS zones
5 Interconnections between networks
- Pairing between Azure networks
- Inter-network traffic and connectivity via an Azure VPN gateway
- Demonstration - Pairing two Azure virtual networks
- Overview of VPN gateways
- Gateway types and service levels
- Site-to-site connections
- Azure local gateway and connections
- The virtual WAN
- Express Route
6 Network traffic management
- Default routes
- User routes
- Demonstration - Creating a routing table and a custom route
- Endpoints
- Private links and endpoints
- Load Balancer Overview
- Configuring a Load Balancer
- Demo - Creating a Load Balancer
- Presentation of Azure Application Gateway
7 Azure Storage
- Overview of Azure storage
- Storage replication
- The different types of storage
- Securing storage accounts
- Blob storage
- File shares
- Demonstration - Creating and connecting a file share
- The file synchronization service
- Storage management tools
8 Azure virtual machines
- Location, price and size
- VM storage
- The process of creating a virtual machine
- Connecting to a virtual machine
- Availability groups
- Extensions for virtual machines
- Demo - Creating a Virtual Machine
- Overview of High Availability Groups
- Managing automatic scaling
9 Serverless computing
- App Service Plan
- App Services Overview
- Continuous deployment and deployment locations
- Securing an App Service
- Custom domain names, configuration settings and scaling
- Monitoring and backups
- Demonstration - Creating an App Service
- Presentation of Azure container instances
- Presentation of the Kubernetes Azure service
- Kubernetes service architecture
- Kubernetes network and storage
- Security and AKS access
10 Data protection
- Overview of Azure Recovery Services vaults
- Azure Backup
- On-premises backup
- Demonstration - Implementing an on-premises file backup in Azure
- Disaster recovery in Azure
- On-premises disaster recovery
11 Monitoring
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Log Analytics
- Alerts
- Demonstration - Creating an alert in Azure
- Network monitoring
12 Microsoft Azure - Manage your Information System in the Cloud (3rd edition)
- Introduction to cloud computing
- The Microsoft public cloud
- Operating Interfaces
- Basic concepts
- Virtual Machine
- Backup and DRP
- App Service
- Database
- Azure Active Directory
- Case Studies
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