Date
- April 17: 09h00-17h00 CET
- April 18: 09h00-17h00 CET
- April 19: 09h00-17h00 CET
Audience
The training is valuable for IT professionals, Azure administrators and architects who have little experience with Azure IaaS, networking, governance, security and management and who want
learn how to build, protect and govern their workloads and data in their Microsoft Azure IaaS environment.
Prerequisites
General knowledge of IT infrastructure
Basic knowledge of Azure, networking protocols and Windows Server
Background in system or network administration
Training content
In today’s modern hybrid cloud world, many companies are moving a subset of their on-premises applications and workloads to the cloud. And this new way of working will also require specific
knowledge and a specific skill set.
In this training we will cover all topics Azure administrators or anyone performing system operations tasks requires to manage an Azure IaaS environment. You will learn how to install, configure, automate, monitor, secure, maintain and troubleshoot your IaaS resources and networks.
The main topics are:
Introduction to Azure
- Azure in a nutshell
- Cloud (Azure) terminology
Azure Foundation and Core Elements
- A look into management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and resources
- Difference between Azure data plane and control pane
- Azure identity and access management
Azure Storage
- A look into all Azure Storage services
- Azure Storage redundancy
- Access tiers and blob lifecycle management
- Hands-on lab: Azure storage and lifecycle management
Azure Networking
- Azure networking components
- Hub and Spoke topology
- Foresee Hybrid connectivity
- Compare Azure load balancing services
- Troubleshooting scenarios
- Hands-on lab: Hub and Spoke architecture
Azure IaaS
- Deploy and configure Azure IaaS resources
- Azure virtual machine scale sets overview
- Azure IaaS best practices
- Troubleshoot Azure IaaS VM issues: resource health, boot diagnostics, activity log, Run
command, redeploy, … - Hands-on lab: Deploy and manage Windows and Linux IaaS VMs
Azure Management and Toolkit
- Tools and applications to manage your Azure resources
- Foresee management and automation tasks with Azure Automation
- Manage your IaaS resources with Azure Bastion
- Deployment acceleration with Infrastructure as Code
- Hands-on lab: Azure Cloud Shell, Azure Automation and Azure Bastion
Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Backup and restore with Azure Backup
- Foresee disaster recovery trough Azure Site Recovery
- Troubleshooting scenarios
- Hands-on lab: Azure Backup for IaaS resources
Azure Governance and Security
- What is Azure Governance?
- Governance key elements: resource naming, tags, resource locks
- Enforce organizational stand and assess compliance at-scale with Azure Policy
- Securely store and access secrets with Azure Key Vault
- Get insights and use Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Hands-on lab: Implement tags, resource locks and Azure Policy.
Azure Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting
- Monitoring your IaaS recourses with Azure Monitor
- What is a Log Analytics workspace?
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Service Health
- Configure alerting and reporting
- Hands-on lab: Monitoring workloads and Infrastructure with Azure Monitor
Azure Cost Management
- Managing cloud spend across the organization
- Using control mechanisms for cost management
- Optimizing your cloud spend
- Hands-on lab: Cost management
General
Some general information about the training:
- The online training takes place via Microsoft Teams
- Access to an Azure subscription will be provided
- The Azure consumption cost is included in the training price
- All training material is handed over to the participants
- The prerequisite software will be communicated one week before the training
