Getting started with Azure Cloud

Learn how to deploy, automate, secure and architect cloud applications with Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Important notice: The current version of this course is a preview, thus it is not yet complete. However more modules will be added each week.

Microsoft Azure cloud is a cloud platform for deploying enterprise applications. It have very rich set of services organized around categories like PaaS (Azure App Service, fully managed database services like Azure SQL Database for SQL Server, for Postgres, and even no SQL database like Cosmos DB), IaaS (like virtual machines…), CaaS (like Web App for containers, ACI, ACR, Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, ACR) and Serverless (like Azure Functions, Logic Apps…).

Course intro
What is the cloud
Create a subscription
Azure portal
1. Tour of the portal
2. Azure subscription (RBAC, cost)
Azure App Service & Plan
1. Introduction
2. Demo: Create Web App
3. Deploy .NET 6.0 Web App using VS Code
Azure CLI
IaC with ARM templates
IaC with Azure Bicep
IaC with Terraform
Cost of Azure services
1. Cost management
2. FinOps for cloud
DevOps for Azure
1. DevOps with Azure Pipelines
2. DevOps with Github Actions
Container services
1. Web App for containers
2. ACI
3. Container apps
4. AKS
5. ACR
Storage services
1. Storage account
2. SQL Server & Database
3. Cosmos DB
4. MySQL
5. Postgres
Compute services
1. Virtual machine
Network services
1. VNET & Subnet
2. Load Balancer
3. Traffic Manager
4. Front Door
5. Application Gateway
Security Services
1. Key Vault
2. Defender for Cloud
3. DDOS protection
4. Azure Firewall
Azure Arc
1. Arc enabled for Servers
2. Arc enabled for Kubernetes
3. Arc enabled for Database
Governance
1. Mannagement group
2. Subscription
3. Resource group
AuthN & AuthZ with Azure AD & RBAC
1. Intro to Azure AD
2. Service Principal
3. Managed Identity
4. Azure AD users & groups
5. Assign roles
6. Custom roles
Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) & Landing Zone
Resources
1. Architecture center