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

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.

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NodeJS and JavaScript

If you're are NodeJS developer, you'll be using NodeJS and JavaScript along with Visual Studio Code.

The live coding activities have been tested to run on Windows 10 Pro 1809, Mac OS X 10.14.4 Mojave and Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

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.NET and C#

If you're a .NET developer on Windows, you'll be using C# with .NET Core and Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 along with Visual Studio Code.

A Windows machine is required. Running Windows in a virtual machine is OK.