Azure Governance and Landing Zones: Best Practices for Building a Well-Governed Cloud
1h 59mIntermediate2024-09-19
Authors

Mike Benkovich
Former Microsoft Evangelist, Current Software Architect
Course details
This course examines how resource consistency, observability, and access management work together to create a successful cloud environment in Azure. Join instructor Mike Benkovich as he explores how to operationalize cloud infrastructure and the patterns of cloud application management, focusing on connected services, resource consistency, and automation in Azure. Try out your new skills along the way in practical demos that show you how to define a landing zone, integrate with cloud services, work with infrastructure-as-code tools like ARM and Bicep, and automate with continuous delivery platforms such as Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. By the end of this course, you’ll be prepared to use Azure's native tools to define compliance and policy and create landing zones for development teams to deliver effective solutions and maintain a well-governed cloud.
Skills covered
PrivacyCloud AdministrationAzureCloud PlatformsCybersecurityCloud ComputingMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The importance of a well-governed cloud
- 02 - What you should know
1. The Cloud Journey
- 03 - A cloud app
- 04 - Demo - Building the Dad app
- 05 - Running the cloud app
- 06 - Demo - Publishing from Visual Studio
- 07 - The cloud journey
- 08 - Tools for the cloud journey
- 09 - Demo - Cloud tools
- 10 - Azure CLI
- 11 - Demo - Azure CLI basics
2. Azure Governance and AI
- 12 - What is Azure Copilot
- 13 - Demo - Copilot in action
- 14 - AI considerations in governance
3. Resource Consistency
- 15 - Governance mindset
- 16 - Demo - Azure portal
- 17 - Infrastructure as code with Azure Resource Manager
- 18 - Demo - ARM basics
- 19 - Demo - Deploying ARM
- 20 - Project Bicep
- 21 - Demo - Bicep
- 22 - Demo - Deploy Bicep
- 23 - Terraform for IaC
- 24 - Demo - Using Terraform
4. Automate Everything
- 25 - DevOps mindset
- 26 - Azure DevOps
- 27 - Demo - Build with Azure DevOps
- 28 - Release pipelines
- 29 - Demo - Deploy with Azure DevOps
- 30 - GitHub Actions
- 31 - Demo - GitHub Actions workflow
- 32 - Pipeline patterns
- 33 - Demo - Pull request workflow
5. Landing Zones
- 34 - Access strategy
- 35 - Demo - Resource groups
- 36 - Policy and compliance
- 37 - Demo - Azure Policy
- 38 - Landing zones and blueprints
- 39 - Demo - Azure Blueprints
Conclusion
- 40 - Closing thoughts
- 41 - Tear down
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