Azure Administration: Deploy and Manage Compute Resources

Course details

Effectively managing compute resources is key to infrastructure administration—and a successful career in IT. In this course, instructor Sharon Bennett discusses how to successfully deploy and manage Microsoft Azure compute resources, focusing heavily on configuration of virtual machines. Sharon shows how to configure VMs for high availability and scalability, set up encryption, provision VMs, and automate VM deployment and configuration with Azure templates. She also teaches how to create and configure containers and web apps. This course is also a valuable resource for anyone preparing for the corresponding domain of the AZ-104 Azure Administrator certification exam. Level up your Azure skills today with these hands-on demos and practical techniques.

Concepts

Introduction

Learn to manage your compute resources with Azure Compute
What you should know

Configure Virtual Machines for High Availability and Scalability

Azure high availability overview
Configure high availability
Deploy and configure scale sets
Challenge Deploy and configure scale sets
Solution Deploy and configure scale sets

Create and Configure Virtual Machines

Create an Azure virtual machine
Create a virtual machine using PowerShell
Configure Azure Disk Encryption
Configure Disk Encryption using PowerShell
Move virtual machines to another resource group
Manage virtual machine sizes
Add data disks
Configure networking
Redeploy a virtual machine
Challenge Provision a virtual machine
Solution Provision a virtual machine
Challenge Add a data disk
Solution Add a data disk

Automate Deployment and Configuration of Virtual Machines

Azure Templates overview
Create a template from a deployment
Modify and deploy a template
Configure VHD template
DSC and script extension overview
Apply a custom script extension
Challenge Install IIS on a virtual machine using a script extension
Solution Install IIS on a virtual machine using a script extension

Create and Configure Containers

Azure Kubernetes Service AKS overview
Deploying the Azure Kubernetes Service
Create and configure Azure Container Instances ACI

Create and Configure Azure App Service

Azure App Service overview
Create and configure an App Service plan
Create an App Service
Configure custom domain names
Configure backup for an App Service
Configure networking settings
Configure deployment settings
Challenge Create and configure an App Service
Solution Create and configure an App Service

Conclusion

Next steps