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Applied Skills for Azure Administrator – Intensive Training («AZAD1»)

Practice deploying containers, container orchestration, and managing clusters on Azure Kubernetes Service.

Duration 2 days

Price 1'800.–

Course documents Official Microsoft Courseware on Microsoft Learn

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Course facts

Key Learnings

Deploying containers, container orchestration, and managing clusters on Azure Kubernetes Service
Configuring and scaling an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Deploying an Azure Container Registry instance and an application into an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
Identifying features and usage cases for subnets, private and public IP addresses
Configuring your network to implement Azure VPN Gateway for transit connectivity
Explaining how Azure Firewall and Azure Firewall Manager work together to protect Azure virtual networks
Evaluating whether Azure Firewall Premium is the right solution to protect your Azure virtual networks from malicious incoming and outgoing traffic and for deploying policies across multiple firewalls
Creating and configuring virtual networks, network security groups (NSGs), Azure Firewall
Configuring network routing as well as Azure DNS to host your domain
Creating DNS zones and configuring DNS settings
Configuring a shared access signature (SAS), including the uniform resource identifier (URI) and SAS parameters
Identifying the capabilities and features of network security groups and virtual network service endpoints
Using network security groups to restrict network connectivity
Using virtual network service endpoints to control network traffic to and from Azure services
Creating and configuring a storage account and blob storage as well as Azure Files
Configuring encryption and networking for storage
Implementing Azure Monitor to collect, analyze and act on monitoring telemetry from Azure environments
Configuring and interpreting monitoring for virtual machines, networking, and web applications
Configuring Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Apps, and other resources required for an app deployment scenario
Configuring Azure Pipelines for a continuous integration scenario
Configuring Azure Container Apps for scaling and revision management
Deploying, scaling, and managing containerized cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Pipelines

Content

1 Deploy containers by using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
In this learning path, you practice deploying containers, container orchestration, and managing clusters on Azure Kubernetes Service. The considered skills include deploying, configuring, and scaling an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. Also, deploying an Azure Container Registry instance and deploying an application into an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster.

2 Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure virtual networking
This module covers the configuration of secure access to workloads using Azure networks.

3 Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage
Learn how to securely store business data using Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files. Skills covered include creating storage accounts, storage containers and file shares. You will also configure encryption and networking to improve security posture.

4 Deploy and configure Azure Monitor
Practice implementing Azure Monitor to collect, analyze, and act on monitoring telemetry data from Azure environments. Learn to configure and interpret monitoring for VMs, networks and web applications.

5 Deploy cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps
Develop the skills necessary to configure a secure deployment solution for cloud-native apps. Learn how to build, deploy, scale, and manage containerized cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Pipelines.

Target audience

This course is aimed at Azure administrators, network engineers and DevOps engineers.

Requirements

Experience using the Azure portal to create resources
Basic knowledge of security concepts like identities, permissions, and encryption
Basic knowledge of networking concepts like virtual networks and subnetting
Basic knowledge of Azure Policy and Azure Kubernetes Service concepts
Basic knowledge of unstructured data like blobs and files
Understand the basic functionality of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics workspaces
Knowledge of containers: Understanding the concept of containers, their benefits, and how they differ from traditional apps and virtual machines
Familiarity with container orchestration: Basic understanding of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and their role in managing containerized applications