Azure Administration: Deploy and Manage Compute Resources

Course details

Effectively managing compute resources is key to infrastructure administration—and a successful career in IT. In this course, instructor Sharon Bennett discusses how to successfully deploy and manage Microsoft Azure compute resources, focusing heavily on configuration of virtual machines. Sharon shows how to configure VMs for high availability and scalability, set up encryption, provision VMs, and automate VM deployment and configuration with Azure templates. She also teaches how to create and configure containers and web apps. This course is also a valuable resource for anyone preparing for the corresponding domain of the AZ-104 Azure Administrator certification exam. Level up your Azure skills today with these hands-on demos and practical techniques.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn to manage your compute resources with Azure Compute
02 - What you should know

1. Configure Virtual Machines for High Availability and Scalability

03 - Azure high availability overview
04 - Configure high availability
05 - Deploy and configure scale sets
06 - Challenge - Deploy and configure scale sets
07 - Solution - Deploy and configure scale sets

2. Create and Configure Virtual Machines

08 - Create an Azure virtual machine
09 - Create a virtual machine using PowerShell
10 - Configure Azure Disk Encryption
11 - Configure Disk Encryption using PowerShell
12 - Move virtual machines to another resource group
13 - Manage virtual machine sizes
14 - Add data disks
15 - Configure networking
16 - Redeploy a virtual machine
17 - Challenge - Provision a virtual machine
18 - Solution - Provision a virtual machine
19 - Challenge - Add a data disk
20 - Solution - Add a data disk

3. Automate Deployment and Configuration of Virtual Machines

21 - Azure Templates overview
22 - Create a template from a deployment
23 - Modify and deploy a template
24 - Configure VHD template
25 - DSC and script extension overview
26 - Apply a custom script extension
27 - Challenge - Install IIS on a virtual machine using a script extension
28 - Solution - Install IIS on a virtual machine using a script extension

4. Create and Configure Containers

29 - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) overview
30 - Deploying the Azure Kubernetes Service
31 - Create and configure Azure Container Instances (ACI)

5. Create and Configure Azure App Service

32 - Azure App Service overview
33 - Create and configure an App Service plan
34 - Create an App Service
35 - Configure custom domain names
36 - Configure backup for an App Service
37 - Configure networking settings
38 - Configure deployment settings
39 - Challenge - Create and configure an App Service
40 - Solution - Create and configure an App Service

Conclusion

41 - Next steps

Azure Administration: Deploy and Manage Compute Resources

Authors

Sharon Bennett