Azure DevOps Course Content

Designing and developing apps for Containers

• Virtual Machine vs Containers
• Install and configure Docker Engine
• Deploy and manage Containers

Configure Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Analytics

• Azure Monitoring and alerts configuration
• Log analytics
• Insights  virtual machines and network
• Insights applications and containers

Azure with Packer & Terraform

• Deploy Azure Infrastructure with Terraform
• Azure Image management with Packer.

Azure Functions & Logic Apps

• Understanding Azure functions.
• Creating and executing Azure Functions.
• Creating Logic Apps and executing.
• Introduction to Azure API Management.

Understanding Azure DevOps

• Learning Azure DevOps application/tool.
• Creating KANBAN boards.
• Creating Repos and branches
• Installing 3rd Party Plugins
• Creating release pipelines and deploying infra.

Azure Migrate projects and customer billing optimization

• Azure Migration projects
• Recovery services vaults
• Azure Database migration services
• Azure cost calculator
• Azure price optimization

Introduction to Azure

• Cloud technology overview
• Overview of Azure
• Managing Azure with the Azure portal
• Managing Azure with Windows Power Shell
• Overview of Azure Resource Manager
• Azure management services

Implementing and managing Azure networking

• Overview of Azure networking
• Implementing and managing Azure virtual networks
• Configuring Azure virtual networks
• Configuring Azure virtual network connectivity
• Configuring the Subnets
• Configuring Virtual Network Region Peering
• Configuring Virtual Network Global Peering
• Understanding Azure to On-Prem Connectivity
• Deploying Azure Virtual Network Gateway.
• Understanding User Defined Routes (UDR).
• Configuring Azure Virtual Network Gateway with AWS over IPSec VPN.
• Implementing Azure Service End Points.

Understanding and Configuring Network Security Groups (NSG)

• Understanding Azure Network Security Groups(NSG)
• Creating and Updating Inbound & Outbound Security Rules.
• Understanding NSG Rule Hierarchy.
• Testing Network Security Groups and leaning rule priority.
• Creating NSG Rules with Service tags.
• Understanding Application Security Groups (ASG).
• Creating NSG with Application Security Groups.

Implementing & Configuring Azure Virtual Machines

• Overview Azure virtual machines
• Deploy virtual machines in Azure portal
• Deploy virtual machines using Azure CLI
• Managing Azure Virtual machine storage
• Understanding Availability sets, Fault Domain & Update Domain.
• Creating & place virtual machine in Availability Sets.

Implement and configure Azure DNS & Azure Standard Load Balancer

• Understanding Azure DNS.
• Buying a domain name for Godaddy.com
• Creating Azure DNS Zone and configure with Godaddy.
• Creating 3 Availability Sets and place single virtual machine in each AV-Set.
• Create Azure Standard Load Balancer and create backend pool and assign all the 3 AVSets.
• Check the Load Balancing between the servers in different AV-Sets.
• Create Host Records for Server and check the name resolution.
• Create the CNAME record for the Load Balancer and check the website resolution.

Configuring Azure Application gateway

• Understanding Azure Application Gateway architecture.
• Understanding Path Based Routing in AGW.
• Creating multiple VMs and configuring application gateway.
• Configuring the SSL Off-loading on Application gateway.
• Check pathing based routing using AGW.

Configuring Auto Scaling with Virtual Machine Scale Sets(VMSS)

• Understanding Azure VMSS
• Creating a Azure VM Image for VMSS
• Deploy VMSS with the custom image.
• Performing stress testing on the VMSS.
• Check Auto Scaling of VMs under stress testing

Designing & Implementing Azure Load Balancing

• Overview on Load Balancing
• Type of Load Balancers in Azure
• Basic Vs Standard Load Balancer
• Deploying Basic Load Balancer with Availability Sets.
• Creating Backend Pools, Health probes and Load Balance rules.
• Checking the Load Balancing scenarios.
• Configuring NAT using Basic Load Balancer.

Planning and implementing Azure Storage

• Azure Storage account overview
• Understand Blob Storage
• Understand File Shares
• Data migration using Azure storage explorer
• Manage Azure Storage permissions
• Azure Static Website deployment
• Custom domains

Planning and implementing Azure SQL Database

• Azure SQL database(PaaS) vs SQL database (IaaS)
• Structured vs Unstructured data
• DTUs –  Azure SQL
• RUs – Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure SQL Global Replication and Failover Groups

Implementing Azure Active Directory

• Azure Domain services
• Azure Active Directory overview
• Deploy and configure Active directory
• Create and manage users and groups
• Extending On-premise Active directory to Azure
• Configure Azure AD connect
• Role based access control (RBAC) overview
• Configure domain users and groups to access Azure portal

Configure and Manage Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery Services

• Backup and disaster recovery overview
• Backup VMware Servers to Azure
• Backup Azure VM & Azure SQL instances
• Azure replication and failover groups
• Azure disaster recovery vault configuration
• How to implement full BCDR strategy

Implementing Azure App services

• Azure Web Apps overview ( PaaS)
• Deploying and Managing Web Apps
• Azure App Service plan
• Azure Deployment slots
• App Service Security
• Server less computing concepts
• Azure Web Apps for scale and resilience
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Implementing Azure-based management and automation

• Implementing Azure Automation
• Implementing Automation run books
• Managing Azure Automation
• Creating and Managing Azure DSC