DevOps with Azure

Microsoft Azure

Working with Azure Virtual Machines

Designing solutions for virtual machines

• Virtual machine series and sizes
• Available VM series and sizes
• Availability Sets
• Fault domains and update domains
• Managed Disks

Creating highly available virtual machines

• From the Azure Portal
• From PowerShell & Azure CLI

VM Scale Sets

• Creating a VM Scale Set from the Azure Portal
• Creating a VM Scale Set from Azure PowerShell & Azure CLI
• Accessing your VM Scale Sets
• VM Scale Set templates

Disaster recovery

• Backup and recovery
• Replication

Administration

• Identify Workloads That Can And Cannot Be Deployed
• Create VMs
• Connect to a Windows/Linux VM
• PowerShell Basics – Create a Virtual Machine
• "VM Workloads" Resources
• ARM Templates and Automation

Working with ARM Templates

Concepts

• What is Resource Manager?
• Resource Provider & Types
• Resource Manager & Classic Deployment
• Subscription Governance
• Organizing resources with management groups
• Create & deploy ARM Template
• IDE: using VS Code to Create the ARM Template

Deploy Templates using

• Portal
• PowerShell
• Azure CLI

Availability and Load Balancing

• Configure Multiple ARM VMs in an Availability Set for Redundancy
• Configure Each Application Tier Into Separate Availability Sets
• Combine the Load Balancer with Availability Sets

Configuring Compute-Intensive Applications

High-performance compute virtual machines

• Microsoft HPC Pack
• Cloud-native HPC solutions
• Hybrid HPC architecture
• Azure Batch
• Creating an Azure Batch service
• Stateless components
• Containers on Azure Batch

Robust Networking Implementations

Azure Virtual Network

• IP addresses
  • Public IP address
  • Private IP address
  • Creating a public IP address
• DNS
• Creating a VNet with two subnets

Azure Load Balancer

• Probes

Connectivity

• Azure Traffic Manager
• Azure Application Gateway
• Azure VPN
• Site-to-site VPN
• VNet-to-VNet VPN
• Point-to-site VPN
• ExpressRoute

Security Strategies

• DMZ
• Network Security Groups
• User Defined Routes
• Virtual network service tunneling
• Web Application Firewall

Administration

• Deploy a VM into a Virtual Network
• Configure External and Internal Load Balancing
• Implement Application Gateway
• Design Subnets
• Configure Static, Public, and Private IP Addresses
• Set Up Network Security Groups (NSGs), DNS at the Virtual Network Level
• User Defined Routes (UDRs)
• Firewall Rules
• Modify Network Configuration
• Modify a Subnet
• Import and Export a Network Configuration
• Multi-Site or Hybrid Network
• Choose the Between ExpressRoute, Site-to-site, and Point-to-site
• Choose the Appropriate Gateway
• Identify Supported Devices and Software VPN Solutions

Storage Solutions

Azure Storage and Replication

• Storage account types
  • General-purpose v1 (GPv1)
  • Blob storage
  • General-purpose v2 (GPv2)
• Storage replication types
  • Locally Redundant Storage
  • Zone Redundant Storage
  • Geo-redundant Storage

Azure Blob Storage

• Access tiers: Hot, Cool, Archive

Other Storage Services

• Azure Table Storage
• Azure Queue Storage
• Azure File Storage
• Azure Disk Storage
• STORSIMPLE
• Cosmos DB Storage
• Azure Search
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure Database for MySQL/PostgreSQL

Administration

• VM storage
• Configure Disk Caching
• Plan Storage Capacity
• Encrypt Disks
• Azure Storage Blobs and Azure Files
• Azure SQL Databases

Securing your Resources

Identity and Access Management

• Azure Active Directory
• Microsoft Graph
• Azure AD Connect
• Multi-Factor Authentication

Secure your Data

• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Storage Service Encryption
• Azure Disk Encryption
• Azure SQL Database Security
• Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity

Life Cycle of Machine Learning Model Development

• Data Extraction
• Data Cleansing & Transformations
• Data Preparations
• Model Selection
• Train, Test, Validate, Deploy, and Tune/Rebuild the Model

Governance and Policies

• Azure Role-Based Access Control
• Azure Resource Policies
• Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
• Azure Security Center

Implementing Messaging Solutions

• Azure Queue Storage
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Notification Hubs
• Designing an effective messaging architecture

Application Monitoring and Alerting Strategies

• Azure Log Analytics
• Azure Monitor
• Application Insights
• Azure Service Health
• Azure Advisor
• Azure Network Watcher

Designing an Operations Automation Strategy

• Azure PowerShell
• Desired State Configuration
• Azure Automation

Deploy Azure Web Apps

• Overview
• Deployment Slots
• Scaling Web Apps
• Traffic Manager

DevOps

CI/CD by Azure

• Git
• Jenkins
• Maven
• Jfrog
• SonarQube

Configuration Management

• Vagrant
• Ansible

Containerization

• Docker
• Kubernetes

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform

Monitoring

• Elastic search
• Kibana
• Log stash
• Nagios

Linux Essentials

• History, OS Types, Flavors, Structure
• File system
• Linux Commands
• User & Group Administration
• SSH and Multi-User Management

Shell Scripting

• Variables, Operators, Conditions, Loops, Functions

Virtualization

• Introduction
• Server, Desktop, Application Virtualization

Web Servers

• Apache Webserver
• Tomcat Application Server

DevOps Tools

Git

• Version Control System
• Git Basics, Configuration, Branching, Merging, Stashing

Automate Build Process

• Maven Basics
• Dependencies, Plugins, Goals

Jenkins

• Installation, Configuration, Plugin Management, Job Creation

Continuous Testing and Integration

• Adding steps to Freestyle Project
• Creating a Pipeline job to execute Maven