Azure Administration: Deploy and Manage Compute Resources

Introduction

• Learn to manage your compute resources with Azure Compute
• What you should know

1. Configure Virtual Machines for High Availability and Scalability

• Azure high availability overview
• Configure high availability
• Deploy and configure scale sets
• Challenge: Deploy and configure scale sets
• Solution: Deploy and configure scale sets

2. Create and Configure Virtual Machines

• Create an Azure virtual machine
• Create a virtual machine using PowerShell
• Configure Azure Disk Encryption
• Configure Disk Encryption using PowerShell
• Move virtual machines to another resource group
• Manage virtual machine sizes
• Add data disks
• Configure networking
• Redeploy a virtual machine
• Challenge: Provision a virtual machine
• Solution: Provision a virtual machine
• Challenge: Add a data disk
• Solution: Add a data disk

3. Automate Deployment and Configuration of Virtual Machines

• Azure Templates overview
• Create a template from a deployment
• Modify and deploy a template
• Configure VHD template
• DSC and script extension overview
• Apply a custom script extension
• Challenge: Install IIS on a virtual machine using a script extension
• Solution: Install IIS on a virtual machine using a script extension

4. Create and Configure Containers

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) overview
• Deploying the Azure Kubernetes Service
• Create and configure Azure Container Instances (ACI)

5. Create and Configure Azure App Service

• Azure App Service overview
• Create and configure an App Service plan
• Create an App Service
• Configure custom domain names
• Configure backup for an App Service
• Configure networking settings
• Configure deployment settings
• Challenge: Create and configure an App Service
• Solution: Create and configure an App Service

Conclusion

• Next steps