- Use Azure Resource Manager to organize resources, enforce standards, and protect critical assets from deletion.
In this module, you will:
- Use resource groups to organize Azure resources.
- Use tags to organize resources.
- Apply policies to enforce standards in your Azure environments.
- Use resource locks to protect critical Azure resources from accidental deletion.
- Learn how to optimize your workload to meet performance requirements while balancing costs, reliability, and security.
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the four principles of the Performance Efficiency pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
- Set realistic performance goals for your workload, based on what the business stakeholders and workload owners agree on.
- Pick a design that suits your performance needs.
- Run your workload in a way that continuously tracks its performance efficiency.
- Keep making your workload better by finding ways to optimize its performance efficiency.
- Learn how to design an Azure architecture that uses modern practices and gives you full visibility into what's happening in your environment.
By the end of this module, you'll be more familiar with the six principles of the Operational Excellence pillar and learn three approaches for each principle. You'll learn how to:
Use DevOps practices to build a strong team culture that encourages collaboration, accountability, and ownership.
Speed up development by using standard tools and processes that help your team work more efficiently.
Build a robust observability platform to improve your operations practices.
Build a secure, reliable, and high-performing workload supply chain that builds trust in your deployments.
Automate routine tasks to reduce manual work and boost security, reliability, and performance.
Follow consistent standards for rolling out changes, and treat every deployment with care.
- Cloud Admin course from Dr. Majd Sakr at Carnegie Mellon University. Monitoring how your cloud resources are performing is crucial to building reliable cloud applications. This module covers what monitoring is, why you need to do it, and how you can about monitoring your resources.
In this module you will:
- Explain the main argument in favor of continual and consistent monitoring and oversight in cloud-based IT systems
- Describe the three types of quantitative measurements that play a role in monitoring
- Understand the mechanics of monitoring platforms that utilize agents to collect and report back information
- Understand the mechanics of monitoring platforms that rely upon pre-existing sources of information such as service logs to analyze performance
- Understand the metrics that are the most beneficial to monitoring
- Learn how measurements are used to judge performance levels
- Describe the justification for problem ticketing
- Describe what KPIs are and how they differ from metrics
- Discuss the concept of “everyday remediation”
This content is provided in partnership with Dr. Majd Sakr and Carnegie Mellon University.
