Azure Academy

LEARN AZURE
2-DAY COURSE

App Service

Virtual Machine

Cloud Service

Functions

Logic Apps

App Insights

SQL Database

CosmosDB

Storage

Service Bus

There are more then 100+ Azure services!

The main hurdle when starting with Azure is selecting the right services from the 100+ Azure services available.

Should you deploy your Web app to App Service (Platform As A Service) or use a Virtual Machine (Infrastructure As A Service).

Looking to implement a messaging workflow? Should you use Storage queues or Service Bus queues?

Need to store data? Should you use a relational database like SQL Database or a NoSQL database like CosmosDB?

Instead of trying to cover every single Azure service, this course's focus is on Azure services making sense for Web developers like App Service, giving you a strong and concrete foundation that you can build on.

COURSE OUTLINE

This technical "workshop style" course covers the core Azure App Service concepts and guides you to build, deploy and monitor Web applications and is the ideal starting point to understand and use Azure effectively. You’ll experience several demos and "live coding" activities and be provided with the code throughout the course, as you learn how to build, deploy and monitor Web apps on Azure.

denotes a topic with hands-on "live coding" activity

Day 1

Azure overview & Cloud use cases
Making sense of pricing
Using Azure

Using the Azure Portal
Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
Using the CLI from VS Code

App Service creation, understanding resource groups
Deployment

Publishing using FTP , Zip file, Code , Visual Studio , local GIT
Staged deployments using deployment slots
Continuous integration with GIT and other source control systems

Azure Storage concepts

Understanding storage redundancy and replication
Access keys , connection strings , shared access signatures , access policies

Using the Storage Explorer
Storage emulation for local testing

Using the Storage Emulator
Using Azurite

Using Storage Blobs to store binary data
Using Storage Tables as a NoSQL data store
Using Storage Queues to decouple workloads

Day 2

Cloud messaging using Service Bus

Understanding Service Bus
Working with queues and topics
Using the Service Bus Explorer

Selecting the right queuing service for the task at hand
Background tasks with Web Jobs
Collecting and analyzing app telemetry using Application Insights
Troubleshooting using the Kudu tools
Serverless

Going serverless with Azure Functions
Understanding durable functions
Create serverless workflows with Logic Apps

SQL Database

Understanding DTUs and planning capacity
Create logins and users
Migrate existing data using the Data Migration Assistant
Using SQL Operations Studio

NoSQL with Cosmos DB

Understanding Request Units and planning capacity
Using the local emulator and the data migration tool
The importance of the partition key
Understanding geo-replication
Using the SQL API to query documents

WHY IS THIS FOR ME?

Developer (C#, Node, Java, PHP, etc)

You're a Web developer and you've been tasked in building a new or deploying an existing Web app to Azure. You want to understand what Azure services to use and what tools can help you with your task. At the end of this course, you'll be able to select the right Azure services for the tasks at hand and create, deploy and manage Web apps on Azure.

Architect / Lead developer

You're the team's architect or lead developer and you've been tasked in moving existing and new appplications to Azure. You want to understand what Azure services to use when designing your Cloud architecture. At the end of this course, you'll have a good understanding of the essentials Azure services.

.NET ONLY? OF COURSE NOT!

This course's content and live activities includes NodeJS with Visual Studio Code and C# with Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. The live coding activities will run on Windows, MacOS X and Ubuntu. It doesn't matter if you're using .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby or something else, back at work, simply use the Azure SDK for your specific platform and the concepts you'll have learned will still apply.