Microsoft Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service provides users with the flexibility and freedom required for scaling and automating their virtual machines on demand for powerful cloud management. It provides various services to enable Platform as a Service-based cloud development, allowing you to deliver simple cloud-based applications as well as sophisticated cloud-based enterprise services.

This comprehensive 4-in-1 course is a practical and easy-to-follow guide to building Cloud-based architecture with Azure. Initially, you’ll Explore Azure Portal to manage resources and access your services as well as work with different storage options and policies for your Azure Cloud. Next, you’ll understand Azure Virtual Networking concepts and Azure Virtual Machine workload concepts. Finally, you’ll learn to design and develop an application as a Cloud-Native service, and deploy using PaaS deployment model that adheres to Azure standards and cloud practices.

Towards the end of this course, you'll design, configure, and build your cloud-based infrastructure using Microsoft Azure Services.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 4 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Infrastructure as a Service Solutions with Azure, covers how to design, configure, and build your cloud-based infrastructure using Microsoft Azure Services. This video tutorial takes you through the core of Infrastructure as a Service with Microsoft Azure and equips you with the practical know how to manage various Azure Services for effective business over the cloud. You’ll dive into Subscription and Resource Management in Azure and learn to work with various resource groups and policies through the Azure Portal. You’ll explore Azure Storage services and employ various storage options for your Virtual Machines that work best for your business. You’ll also explore Azure Networking, set up your Virtual Networks, control network traffic with the help of Azure Traffic Manager and Security Groups, and host your domain name server with Azure DNS. Finally, you’ll learn to leverage Azure Compute, work with Azure Virtual Machines, and download specialized Virtual Machines from the Azure Marketplace as per your business requirements. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be ready to leverage different services core to Azure IaaS, enabling your business to thrive over the cloud.

The second course, Architecting an Azure Compute Infrastructure, covers how to design and implement your Azure compute infrastructure. In this module, we highlight one of the most common scenarios in an Azure adoption project, mainly designing and integrating Azure Virtual Machine topologies. Just like building out your VM architecture in a typical on-premises datacenter, this course is logically structured in that way. Starting from designing Azure Virtual Networking architectures, both within Azure and for Hybrid scenarios, we move over to an in-depth view on Azure Virtual Machines. What VM sizes are available and how to decide which ones to use, how to deploy VMs in a couple of different ways, as well as how to streamline Azure VM configurations, are the key objectives of this topic. Next, viewers will learn how to architect high-availability setups for Azure VM workloads. In the last section of this course, viewers will get a good understanding of what platform monitoring solutions Azure provides today, by zooming in on Operations Management Suite, Azure Monitor, and Azure Log Analytics.

The third course, Architecting Azure Solutions for PaaS, covers how to design and Deploy your Cloud-Native Solutions on Azure. This course will show you how to use Azure's PaaS offering to build global, performant, and secure applications. You’ll gain a better understanding of PaaS development on Azure, and how to architect your applications and services in a cloud-native design. You will learn how to explore Azure marketplace to find the best suitable service for your application requirements, and then integrate your application to work frictionless with Azure solutions. By the end of this course, you will be capable of architecting your applications on Microsoft Azure using PaaS solutions. This course will help you learn the ins and outs of the architectural development of solutions for Microsoft Azure.

The fourth course, Azure Platform as a Service – Web and API Application Deployment, covers how to build, manage, and deploy your own Platform as a Service Cloud with the help of Azure Services. This video tutorial will provide you with the necessary know-how to leverage Azure services to build your own PaaS cloud. You'll start by exploring Azure App Services, and learn to work with supported application types based on different parameters such as languages and functions. You'll learn to configure, publish, secure, and analyze your application APIs with Azure API management. Going further, you will learn to leverage Database as a Service in Azure, and work with different options for database management and also different types of databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. You'll even learn to develop NoSQL databases with the help of Azure Table Storage. Next, you will delve into Data Processing as a Service, and learn how to create custom searches for your application, enable messaging between applications and services, and work with data using Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Catalog.

Towards the end of this course, you'll design, configure, and build your cloud-based infrastructure using Microsoft Azure Services.

About the Authors

• Brian Christopher Harrison has been involved with Microsoft Azure since 2012 and is currently a Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft. He has been involved in Microsoft training, and has actively blogged and spoken about Azure on Microsoft's site and also has his own screencasts.

  
  

• Peter De Tender is the CEO and Lead Technical Trainer at PDTIT and 007FFFLearning, a Microsoft Cloud Platform Architect, extremely passionate trainer and speaker, Azure MVP (2013-2018), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and technical writer. Starting his career in 1996, Peter has never looked back from Microsoft infrastructure technologies. At present, he’s an expert on Azure and Azure Stack, coaching global Microsoft Partners, larger Microsoft customers, and Microsoft FTE teams, all over the world, in achieving more with Azure. While this got him a position as FTE for Microsoft Corp in the global Microsoft AzureCAT GSI (Azure Engineering) team early 2016, his passion for speaking and presenting made him decide to return to his own company after about a year, coming back with an even stronger focus on providing readiness workshops and architect consulting on the Azure platform. When Peter is not speaking or presenting, he authors Azure-related whitepapers and courses for Microsoft as well as several other training companies in the IT industry or updating his own custom Azure Advanced training material.

  
  

• Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, and likes .NET Core for regular day development. He has experience with cloud, mobile, and API development. Afzaal Ahmad has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. He has been awarded MVP Award by Alibaba Cloud for cloud expertise and has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for his work in the field of software development twice, four times as a CodeProject MVP for technical writing and mentoring, and four times as a C# Corner MVP in the same field.