Hosting Virtual Machines in a Multicloud Environment

Course details

Using multiple cloud providers has become the norm for organizations, as multicloud environments can improve security and operational efficiency while potentially reducing costs. In this hands-on course, Microsoft MVP Brien Posey demonstrates how to enable communication between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Get an overview of multicloud architecture and learn how to set up a cross cloud VPN between Azure and AWS using only native managed services. You will learn how to configure virtual private clouds, subnets and address ranges, gateway services, firewalls, and much more. After creating a cross cloud VPN, you will learn how to deploy Active Directory as a managed service, so that you can manage identities across clouds. You will even learn how to keep cloud based directory services synchronized with one another.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Adopting a multi-cloud architecture

1. Multicloud Architecture

02 - A multicloud architectural overview

2. Create an Azure VPN

03 - Create an Azure resource group
04 - Create an Azure virtual network
05 - Configure the address space
06 - Create a VPN gateway
07 - Document the gateway IP address

3. Create an AWS VPN

08 - Create an AWS VPC
09 - Create two subnets
10 - Create a customer gateway
11 - Create a virtual private gateway
12 - Create an internet gateway
13 - Create a site-to-site VPN
14 - Download the configuration file

4. Setting Up an Azure Gateway

15 - Create a local network gateway
16 - Create a network gateway connection
17 - Verify gateway connectivity

5. Modifying the Routing Tables

18 - Edit the AWS routing tables

6. Creating Virtual Machines

19 - Create an Azure virtual machine
20 - Create an AWS EC2 instance
21 - Edit the AWS security group
22 - Configure the Azure port rules
23 - Connect to the Azure VM
24 - Connect to the EC2 instance
25 - Configure the Windows Firewall
26 - Verifying static routes
27 - Testing communications between clouds

7. Building the Active Directory

28 - Deploy an AWS Managed Microsoft AD
29 - Create domain joined instances
30 - Manually join instances to a domain
31 - Install and test AD management tools
32 - Add a custom domain name to Azure AD
33 - Create a global admin account

8. Deploy Azure AD Connect

34 - Install Azure AD Connect tools
35 - Configure Azure AD connect permissions
36 - Update security group rules
37 - Install Azure AD Connect
38 - Test Active Directory synchronization

Conclusion

39 - Next steps