Microsoft Azure Master Class

A quick introduction to the goals and structure of this Azure Master Class.

In this part we look at the basics of the public cloud and key types of service available in the public cloud.

In this module we explore all aspects of identity related to Azure including, AD, Azure AD, roles, administrative units, MFA, conditional access and more.

In this 3rd part of the Azure Master Class we look at key aspects of governance including management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and how we use them. Large focus on RBAC, Azure Policy and budgets and then an examination of Tags, Azure Blueprints, Locks and some key Microsoft resources.

In this 4th part of the Azure Master Class we look at key aspects of resiliency including regions, Availability Sets, Availability Zones, active/passive and active/active architectures. global balancing, replication, backup and more.

Part 5 of the master class diving into core storage functionality including storage options, types of service, using storage with VMs, storage tools and more.

Part 6 of the master class diving into core networking functionality including virtual networks, connectivity, Network Security Groups, Service Endpoints, Private Endpoints and more.

Part 7 of the master class diving into the building blocks of many services in Azure; Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Let's get to it!

Part 8 of the master class where we will explore key application services in Azure providing Platform as a Service from containers through to serverless!

Part 9 of the master class and we look at how to monitor resources in Azure and then applying that data to aid in security. We finish off with a quick look at managed identities and key vault.

Part 10 of the master class and we look at the various database offerings including SQL, open source like PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB then Cosmos DB. We finish looking at data flow from source to sink with data factory, data bricks and more.

Part 11 of the master class and we look at the Infrastructure as Code, source control and version management with Git, extending that to GitHub then being part of DevOps with GitHub Actions

Just a short video summarizing how to use the Azure Master Class and walking through the Git repository.