Times, and the ability to scale your operations to meet modern day needs. In this course, we'll be taking an in-depth view of one of the more widely used cloud computing platforms in the industry today. Microsoft Azure. This course is intended for anybody who is looking into getting a basic understanding of cloud computing concepts and the services and offerings provided by Microsoft's Azure platform. You might be a developer looking to learn more about CIC D environments or maybe a network engineer that would like to understand how you might integrate Azure ID with your on-prem instance of Ady, or maybe you're somebody who's.
Responsible for purchasing technology resources for your organization. And you'd like to understand what total cost of ownership looks like in the cloud versus the expenses you might have experienced when purchasing physical hardware. In any case, we'll be taking a deep dive into the world of possibility that comes with Microsoft's Azure platform. Since there are a wide variety of services and offerings available. You may find that we start talking about a subject or concept that you're not familiar with. If this happens to you, I'd like to encourage you to pause the video and do a little bit of research on the topic. In question, I realize it can be easy to go down the rabbit hole when.
Learning about new technology concepts. But if you or your organization is considering cloud adoption, it would be pretty important to have a firm grasp on the concepts and offerings that are available to you. So please take your time and move along at your own pace. I've included a worksheet for this course with links to resources and practice exercises. I would like to encourage you to take the time to work through each of these exercises and review the resources I've shared. The more informed you are, the more successful your efforts will be. If you're enjoying these videos, please remember to like, and subscribe..
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After completing the module, you should be able to do the following, answer the question, why cloud services describe the terms infrastructure as a service or I as platform as a service or paths and software as a service or SAS, you should also be able to understand the difference between public private and hybrid cloud models. Okay, let's begin. So now that we know what the cloud is, the next question we'll want to explore is why should I be considering cloud services? Well, if you've ever had to manage network cabling and your on-site infrastructure,.
This translates into lower operating costs, the ability to run your infrastructure in a more efficient manner, and the ability to scale your infrastructure as your business evolves and your business needs change. Another benefit is that the cloud creates an ideal environment for quicker innovation and production. We're now seeing development teams deliver new features and software at record speeds. Thanks to the ease of quickly setting up test environments that used to take us weeks or longer to procure and an on premises setting software releases that.
Used to be scheduled on a monthly or even annual basis are now being released in weeks or days with some updates, even happening multiple times a day. The cloud ultimately provides modern day resources for modern day needs. Relatively speaking. It wasn't all that long ago when we were all using flip phones and waiting for our dial up internet connections to load a single internet page devices today, have the ability to recognize by a metrics such as the look of your face, the pattern of your fingerprint or the sound of your voice..
We can now connect to our thermostats and doorbells from our phones, even if we're in another part of the country, most of these modern technologies are powered by the cloud. The cloud offers nearly limitless pool of raw compute, storage and networking components. It also provides on-demand access to speech recognition and other cognitive services that help you make your application stand out from the crowd cloud analytics services, deliver telemetry data from software and devices in near real time..
When thinking about how the benefits of cloud computing compared to doing similar business in an on-premise environment, we'll find that there are several advantages to the cloud environment offers the cloud offers high availability. There are a variety of SLA offerings for you to choose from, with options that offer virtually no downtime for your services and applications. We'll get a little deeper into SLS later in this course, the cloud offers scalability and allows you to scale vertically by easily adding Ram or CPU power to a virtual machine. While it also allows you to scale horizontally by adding instances.
Of resources like new virtual servers to your environment on demand, the cloud has elasticity. You can configure your cloud-based applications to auto-scale so that they'll always have the resources that they need. The cloud also offers agility by giving the options to deploy and configure resources quickly to meet your ever-changing application requirements. The cloud is geo distributed. This means that you can deploy your resources anywhere in the world where your customers may be, so that they'll have the best performance. When interacting with your applications..
Disaster recovery is revolutionized in the cloud with backup services, data
Replication, and geo distribution. There are multiple avenues for you to quickly and easily restore your production environments back to their optimal states. When it comes to expenses, cloud computing translates into an operational expenditure or op ex instead of a capital expenditure or a cap ex when you purchase on-premise equipment, it goes on your balance sheets as an asset. Over time to account for the limited lifespan of the equipment,.The asset has to be depreciated or amortized cloud computing. On the other hand is consumption-based. The expenses are categorized as operational, which has a direct impact on net profit, taxable income and the associated expenses on your balance sheet. As you can see, there are a good amount of benefits to be gained by moving into cloud computing. Okay, now that we know a few reasons why we should consider cloud services, let's discuss a few terms that we'll come across. As we start to navigate the cloud computing landscape infrastructure as a service or as platform as a service or paths and software as a service or says,.
These are the terms used to describe the different levels of cloud service models. Let's take a look at each of these service models in a little more detail. First let's consider infrastructure as a service or IaaS. This service model is the most flexible in that. It gives you close to complete control over the hardware that runs your applications. You can think of I, as, as running a data center with all of the hardware in it, instead of purchasing the space hardware and environmental controls on your own, your cloud service provider will keep the hardware up-to-date for you, but your teams will be responsible for operating system maintenance and network configurations..
Some of the additional benefits of the service model are there are no cap X expenses as there aren't any upfront costs to deploy an environment in terms of agility, applications can be made available quickly and de provision just as quickly. As I mentioned earlier, this cloud service model has a shared responsibility model of management. Your team can stay focused on your mission critical services and the underlying software. While the cloud service providers team manages and maintains the clouds infrastructure. This cloud service model is consumption-based..
As we've mentioned, meaning that you only pay for what you use and Curt as an operating expense for your organization. And when you work with a cloud service provider, you can be assured that you have a skilled team of experts working to make sure your workloads are secure, safe, and highly event. Next, let's take a look at the platform as a service or paths cloud service model. The pass model is what we would consider a managed hosting environment. This means that your cloud service provider will manage your virtual.
Machines and networking resources while your team will work in the hosted environment deploying and supporting your organization's applications. So for example, you may have web developers on your team who would be able to upload their web applications directly to a ready to use cloud server without having to worry about the physical hardware and software requirements. In addition to sharing many of the benefits of the model, the pass model also offers some unique benefits. This cloud service model offers access to cutting edge development tools, which can be applied across an application's life cycle. As we mentioned, in terms of management, your cloud service.
Provider will be taking care of most of your environment, variable. This means that your teams can focus on the applications that mean the most to your organization, leading to one of the greatest benefits of the pass model, increased productivity. Your teams can be geographically dispersed, but have the same access to the platform over the internet. This creates more opportunities for collaboration and cooperation among your team. As your cloud service provider handles the platform managements. There is one disadvantage to mention with this model, there could potentially be limitations to a cloud platform that would conflict with.
The requirements of an application. If you're going to consider this model, it would be wise to keep this in mind when doing your shopping, make sure that the environment offered can provide what your team will need. Finally, we have the software as a service cloud service. And this model, the cloud service provider manages all aspects of the application from hardware, all the way through operating systems, to the software and applications that are available to your users. An example of this model would be Microsoft office 365, which is a full.
Version of Microsoft office in the cloud. This cloud service model enjoys many of the benefits of the two other models we've covered with the primary limitation being that the software is provided as is, and typically cannot be customized to meet an end user special request. This is something to keep in mind if you're considering going with an offering of this model type, okay. That covers the three types of cloud service models available to us. I as pass and says, now that we've talked a bit about cloud service models, let's take a look at the three types of deployment models for cloud..
Public private and hybrid clouds. The public cloud deployment model is defined as computing services offered
By third-party providers over the internet, making them available to anyone who wants to use a purchase them. They may be free or sold on demand, allowing customers to pay only for the resources they use. Public clouds can save companies from the expensive cost of having to purchase, manage and maintain on premises, hardware and application infrastructure. The cloud service provider is held responsible for all management and maintenance of the platform..Public clouds can also be deployed faster than on-premise infrastructure and with an almost infinitely scalable platform, every employee of a company can use the same application from any location using their device of choice. As long as they can access the internet security concerns have been raised over public cloud environments. However, when implemented correctly, the public cloud can be as secure as the most effectively managed private cloud implementation. The private cloud deployment model is defined as computing services offered either over the internet or a private internal network and only to.
Select users, instead of the general public also referred to as internal or corporate clouds, private cloud computing offers many of the benefits of a public cloud, including self-service scalability and elasticity with additional controls and customizations available through dedicated resources, hosted in on-premise infrastructure. In addition, private clouds deliver a higher level of security and privacy through both company firewalls and internal hosting, ensuring operations and sensitive data are not accessible to third-party providers. However, the company's it department is held responsible for the cost and.
Accountability of managing private cloud. So private clouds required the same staffing management and maintenance expenses as traditional data center owners. Two models for cloud services can be delivered in a private cloud. The first is I, as which allows a company to use infrastructure resources, such as compute network and storage as a service. The second is paths that lets a company deliver everything from simple cloud-based applications to sophisticated enterprise level applications..
Finally, we have the hybrid cloud deployment model, which offers the most flexibility in terms of control by combining the features of the public and private cloud models. Organizations can combine both models and allow data and applications should be shared between them and this model organizations determine where they run their applications, but they also take on the added responsibilities of security compliance and legal requirements. Okay. That covers the three types of cloud deployment models and brings us to the end of our first module..
I've included an exercise sheet with this video that asks you to take a moment to review our goals for the module. Our first goal was to answer the question, why cloud services take a moment and see if you feel comfortable describing some of the benefits of cloud computing. Next, we were asked to describe the terms infrastructure as a service or as platform as a service or paths and software as a service or size. Are you comfortable with your understanding of the benefits each of these cloud service models has to offer? Finally, we were asked to understand the difference between public private and hybrid cloud deployment models..
Take a moment to write down what you can recall about each of these concepts and questions before moving on to the next module, where we'll be looking under the hood of the Microsoft Azure platform. Okay. Congratulations on completing module one. I'll see you on our next. Welcome back to Azure fundamentals. This is module two core Azure services, and this module we'll cover the basics of the core services and products available on the Microsoft Azure platform. By the time you're finished with this module, you should have a.
Basic understanding of the tools and services offered on the Azure platform, including core Azure, architectural components, core Azure services and products and Azure management tools. Now that we've familiarized ourselves with some basic concepts of cloud computing, let's take a look at how some of those concepts are realized on the Azure platform. We'll start by looking at the core Azure architectural components. The organizational structure of Azure is broken out into four main levels management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources..
Let's take a look at the elements of this tree from the bottom. Resources are instances of services that you create such as virtual machines, storage allocation, or SQL databases, resources are then combined into resource groups in order to create a container for easy organization and management. When you delete a resource group, any resources that you had added to that group will also be deleted. When thinking about strategies for organizing your resource groups, you might want to consider a life cycle management, where you create a resource group that will hold all of the resources for our test environment..
And as soon as you're finished running your testing, you can easily delete the group. And the resources associated with that resource groups are also a great way to apply a role-based access controls to certain applications and resources. Then here on the next level at subscriptions, we see that subscriptions grouped together, user accounts and the services that have been created by those accounts and Azure account can have one subscription or many subscriptions, which would be used to organize different billing and access management policies..
There are limits on how many resources you can create per subscription. So organizations can choose to use subscriptions to organize and manage costs and resources by user team or project. When thinking about how to structure your subscriptions, you may want to consider subscriptions broken out by our environments. For example, a subscription for your dev environment. You may have another for your stage environment and then one for your production environment, or you might want to think about subscriptions aligned to your org structure or billing department. And then finally at the top level of this tree, we have our management.
Groups, management groups help you manage access policy and compliance for multiple subscriptions, all subscriptions and a single management group will inherit any conditions that have been applied to the top level group. You can build a flexible structure of management groups and subscriptions to organize your resources into a hierarchy that reflects your organization's policy and access management. Let's take a look at this next diagram as an example. Okay. If we take a look at this diagram, we'll see that we have a management group hierarchy that's broken out to match the organization's org structure..
We have a route management group at the top level here, and you can see we have three separate management groups underneath that one for human resources. One for it. And one for marketing, then we see, we have two standalone subscriptions which would belong to the route management group at the top level underneath HR. We see, we have another management group that's used to manage the applications that that team would use and also a dev test subscription that would belong strictly to that HR management group underneath it..
We see, we have another management group for production that is broken out into two geo regions, geo region one and geo region two. And underneath each of those regions, we have a subscriptions that are used in each of those regions. We have two for geo region one and three subscriptions for geo region two. Finally, if we take a look at the marketing group, we'll see that we have two free trial subscriptions for use underneath the marketing team. And again, you can think about breaking this out by your billing and accounting needs, or you might want to think about breaking it out based on your.
User groups or your environments. There are a couple of facts that I want to cover regarding management groups. You can have up to 10,000 groups in a single directory. Your management group trees can have up to six layers of depth and a management group and subscription may only have one parent, but they can have many children. Okay. So now that we've covered some of the core architectural components, let's take a look under the hood of Azure and see what this looks like in reality. Okay. Now that we know that cloud services are delivered over the internet, the first thing we're going to want to do is go ahead and open up.
Your browser of choice and let's navigate to HTTPS portal.azure dot. I've already logged into Azure. If this is your first time signing into the portal, you're going to be prompted to sign in with a Microsoft account of choice. If you don't have a Microsoft account, you can go ahead and set one up. But for now we can see that my Azure portal is autoloading because I have my credentials here. All right. So now we are looking at your homepage and the Microsoft Azure portal. Let's take a brief little look at what we have here. Okay. On the top level, we have some of our favorite links..
We have a link to create resources. We have links to our subscriptions links to create SQL servers, SQL servers, stretch virtual machines, management groups, a little below that we have links to navigates and also tools you can learn for free Microsoft presents classes online. So you can go through any of these resources and dig into them in a little bit more depth. There is the Azure monitor, which shows you the status of your resources and tools. And again, you can see if you hover over any of these Microsoft.
Offers free trainings and useful links that relate to each of the resources that you're hovering. Microsoft defender for cloud. So they offer security training for Microsoft cloud and also cost management down here. We also see a few more useful links. We have our technical documentation migration tools, Azure services links to find Azure experts, recent Azure updates, and a quick start center looking across the top on the blue bar here, we see that we have a search bar where we can search for anything..
Say we're looking for Azure active directory and there we have it. Azure active directory. We can link right to that and we can see right now we are in a default direct. But all of the features and tools that you would have in an on-prem version of active directory are also replicated here into a cloud version of active directory. Okay. We can navigate by clicking at any point back on Microsoft Azure home. Or if you look at the top window bar over here, we can navigate.
Back to the home screen as well. Let's look at this hamburger menu here, and this is the Porter menu. We can create a resource we can always navigate right back home. We can create a dashboard here. Now in this dashboard, you can set up a series of charts and reports that reflect the status of the resources you have set up. So your virtual machines, your app services, your databases, you can have a network watcher turned on. You can have security features turned on to show if there's any threats..
Again, customize this by clicking on the new dashboard button here and going ahead and building out a dashboard that contains relevant information to you and your organization. Okay. This is a big one here. Let's get ready to look at all services, but before we do, you'll see a list of favorite links. Now these are links that by default, the first time you're in here at assumes that these are going to be linked to. Interested in reviewing and looking at, but after you use Azure for a bit of time,.
These favorites will reflect the services and apps that you're using the most. But with that said, let's take a look at all services, going to wait here a second for this page to load, right? And we can see, we have all of our services listed, broken out into categories. So we have our favorites recents, and then we have our general categories, the main categories of services available fall into compute, networking, storage, and apps..
They break that down into further classifications, but you can scroll through and see that there are a good amount of services and resources available to you. Everything from subscriptions and templates to coming down into the compute area. This is where we would go to create our virtual machines. We could come and look into our Kubernetes services to manage containers and storage. If we scroll down a little further, we see our virtual networking tools and services available..
Again, you may not see distinct services in these lists. You may find that a service applies to more than one category. So you'd see it listed multiple times here, but we have a networking breakdown. We have a category broken out into storage services. So our storage accounts, our device managers and data managers, we have web services. So web apps, app service plans, domains, API management services..
We have notification hubs media services. Scrolling down a little further. We have the mobile category, again, a container category, a database category. And as you can see here, we're not limited strictly to SQL server. We have no SQL databases like Mongo. We have cosmos, we have Maria DB, we have PostgreSQL, and my SQL is also available in here. So there's a great variety of services available coming down..
We have an analytics category and here we're going to find tools that help us to monitor the services that we've subscribed to. And that we have in place. We have a category for services related to AI and machine learning, IOT mixed reality. We have integration services. Identity services where we'd find our active directory and identity management tools. We'll dig into all of these in a little bit more detail..
Later in the course, we have a security category where we find things like Microsoft defender for the cloud. We have dev ops categories. So here we can manage our agile teams with Microsoft dev ops. We have a migration category, a monitoring category. We have our management and governance category. And again, we'll take a look at some of these in a little more detail.
In just a bit in tune services hybrid and multi-cloud services. Uh, generalized other category, 120 services categorized into the other category. So I'd say once you have your account set up for Azure, it would be worth coming in and taking a look at each of these services that interest you hover over one. See what it's all about. Check out what Azure VMware solutions might look like..
If you hover over any of these, you can see you get a description here that the Azure VMware solution combines the VMware software defined data center with Microsoft Azure cloud bare metal infrastructure. So come in, take a look at these services. You may want to pause the video here, just to look through some of these and see if any of these appeals. All right, let's navigate back home again. We can click here to come back to the homepage and across the top bar, we have a few more items that we can take a look at..