Permit to Cloud: Landing with Confidence in Azure
1h 34mIntermediate2021-10-01
Authors
Mike Benkovich
Former Microsoft Evangelist, Current Software Architect
Course details
The cloud provides a lot of great benefits for running your applications, but understanding and avoiding pitfalls will make the journey a lot more predictable and be more likely to provide the return on investment of time and energy put into the migration. In this course, Mike Benkovich takes you through the cloud journey, starting with how to build cloud-aware apps, to adding practices and processes to ensure you’re working in a way that can support the lifespan of your applications. Mike also shows how to use continuous delivery with GitHub Actions and DevOps pipelines, how to get started with Infrastructure as code, and discusses governance and policy. If you’re looking to move your applications to the cloud, join Mike in this course as he provides you with guardrails to make the journey successfully.
Skills covered
AzurePersonaNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingMicrosoft
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Creating your applications in Azure
- 02 - What you should know
1. Cloud Aware
- 03 - What is a cloud application
- 04 - Demo - Building a cloud-aware application
- 05 - Azure identity, subscriptions, and resources
- 06 - Demo - Accessing the cloud
- 07 - Publishing approaches
- 08 - Demo - Publishing options
- 09 - Challenge - Cloud-aware app
- 10 - Solution - Cloud-aware app
2. Cloud Optimized
- 11 - Automating deployments
- 12 - Demo - Using GitHub Actions for continuous delivery
- 13 - Other deployment options
- 14 - Demo - Azure DevOps pipelines
- 15 - Challenge - Cloud optimized
- 16 - Solution - Cloud optimized
3. Cloud Invested
- 17 - Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- 18 - Demo - Resource Group project in Visual Studio
- 19 - Demo - ARM extension in VS Code
- 20 - Project Bicep
- 21 - Demo - Bicep and ARM
- 22 - Working with Terraform
- 23 - Demo - Using Terraform to deploy
- 24 - Challenge - Cloud-invested IaC
- 25 - Solution - Cloud-invested IaC
4. Enterprise Ready
- 26 - Governance concerns
- 27 - Demo - Policies in Azure
- 28 - Creating landing zones with Azure Blueprints
- 29 - Demo - Azure Blueprints
- 30 - Challenge - Azure application blueprint
- 31 - Solution - Azure application blueprint
Conclusion
- 32 - Next steps with Azure