Hosting Virtual Machines in a Multicloud Environment (2018)

Course details

Using multiple cloud providers has become the norm for organizations, as multicloud environments can improve security and operational efficiency while reducing costs. In this course, Microsoft MVP Brien Posey demonstrates how to enable communication between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. He covers virtual private clouds, gateway servers, connectivity, and more. Find out how to install the Microsoft Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine to communicate with Azure. Then, discover how to implement virtual and local network gateways in Azure to receive and send resources between AWS. Plus, learn how to connect an Azure virtual machine to a cloud-hosted Microsoft Active Directory.

Learning objectives
Planning a multicloud architecture
Creating an AWS virtual private cloud
Setting up an AWS gateway server
Preparing Azure networking
Configuring an RRAS server
Connecting RRAS to Azure
Testing communication between Azure and EC2
Building an AD environment in AWS
Spanning AD across clouds

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Share resources between clouds
02 - What you should know

1. Plan for a Multicloud Environment

03 - Architectural planning
04 - Planning considerations

2. Create an AWS Virtual Private Cloud

05 - Create an AWS VPC
06 - Associate VPC to an internet gateway
07 - Create an elastic IP address

3. Create an AWS Gateway Server

08 - Create an EC2 gateway server instance
09 - Verify you can log in to the instance
10 - Associate elastic IP with instance
11 - Disable source and destination checking

4. Prepare Microsoft Azure Networking

12 - Create an Azure resource group
13 - Create a virtual network
14 - Create a virtual network gateway
15 - Update the AWS routing tables
16 - Create a local network gateway
17 - Configure the local network gateway

5. Create an RRAS Server

18 - Install Routing and Remote Access
19 - Install the VPN option
20 - Locate the virtual network gateway IP
21 - Configure RRAS VPN access
22 - Add a preshared key

6. Enable Connectivity

23 - Connect RRAS to Azure
24 - Verify connectivity from Azure

7. Test Virtual Machine Connectivity

25 - Deploy an EC2 instance
26 - Create an Azure VM
27 - Verify EC2 to Azure communications
28 - Verify Azure to EC2 communications

8. Build an Active Directory Environment

29 - Create an AWS directory
30 - Find the directory's DNS address
31 - Join an AWS instance to Active Directory
32 - Configure DNS on an Azure VM
33 - Join an Azure VM to Active Directory

Conclusion

34 - Next steps