Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Virtual Machines & Security Groups

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Course Overview
  2m 25s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about the instructor and the course. You’ll learn that AZ-900 is an entry level Microsoft Azure certification that introduces you to Azure service offerings, including storage, virtual machines, databases, and developer solutions. Microsoft Azure allows you to leverage the infrastructure of an existing computing environment to reduce or even eliminate on-premises solutions. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  Azure Virtual Machines
  6m 32s
  In this video, you'll learn more about the underlying Microsoft Azure environment, which is made up of virtual machines. These virtual machines can be manually deployed as Infrastructure as a Service or deployed automatically behind the scenes when using a managed service. You'll learn that with Azure virtual machines, you're deploying either Windows virtual machines from a Windows image or a Linux virtual machine from a Linux image. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Managing Azure Virtual Machines Using the Portal
  8m 24s
  In this video, you’ll watch a demo. In the demo, your instructor will use the Azure portal GUI to create a Windows virtual machine. You’ll learn how to determine what kind of hardware is required, whether it's physical hardware, resources, or virtual hardware, things like the number of disks, the amount of disk space, the amount of RAM, the amount of processors and the network configuration for a virtual machine. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  Managing Azure Virtual Machines Using the CLI
  9m 2s
  Virtual machines are the underlying work engine supporting many Azure services. In the demo, you'll learn how to deploy an Azure VM using the CLI. Following the onscreen directions, you'll use ARM templates. The demo will focus on the Azure CLI, Command Line Interface. You'll run az in order to find what the syntax is. Then, you'll look for the next level command after az. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  Managing Azure Virtual Machines Using PowerShell
  6m 5s
  In the demo, you'll learn how to deploy an Azure VM using PowerShell. First, you'll open up the Windows PowerShell ISE, the Integrated Scripting Environment where the instructor has the code set up to deploy a Windows-based virtual machine in the Azure cloud. You'll follow onscreen directions through each line to learn more about what's taking place in the demo. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  5m 39s
  In this video, you'll learn how to recognize the purpose of VM scale sets, or VMSS. They can be used with load balancing, meaning you can autoscale a scale set to determine when it needs to add more or reduce the number of virtual machines. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  Deploying an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set
  10m 25s
  In this video, you'll learn how to implement a VM scale set. The Microsoft Azure virtual machine scale set lets you organize a group of virtual machines that are identical. You'll discover that these are based on the same OS image, and they host the same app. These virtual machine scale sets can be used to increase the number of virtual machines or decrease the number as needed. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Azure Load Balancer
  6m 27s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about load balancing. You’ll learn this is an important part of any application design because it can spread client requests across multiple backend virtual machines where each of those backend virtual machines is configured with that app. You’ll learn this means all the VMs on that app would either use the same shared network storage or use some kind of real-time replication. You’ll learn this results in increased performance.   FREE ACCESS
• 9.  Deploying an Azure Load Balancer
  8m 48s
  Load balancing refers to evenly distributing load (incoming network traffic) across a group of backend servers. In this video, the instructor will provide onscreen directions for configuring an Azure load balancer. You'll follow directions for a configuration consisting of two backend Windows virtual machines that will serve up an app that will be load balanced. FREE ACCESS
• 10.  Azure Dedicated Hosts
  5m 19s
  In this video, you'll learn that when you run virtual machines in your own data center, you have full control of the physical hardware and the hypervisor server that is running the virtual machines. You'll discover that Microsoft Azure offers you the option to configure dedicated hosts. You'll learn this means having a physical server in a Microsoft Azure data center that runs only your organization's virtual machines. FREE ACCESS
• 11.  Network Security Groups
  6m 23s
  In this video, you'll learn that network firewalls are one important component in an overall cybersecurity strategy. In Azure, this refers to a Network Security Group, an NSG. You'll learn that a network security group is an Azure resource that you create in Azure. You'll also discover you can associate the network security group with a subnet or with a network interface for a virtual machine. Watch this video to describe the purpose of Azure network security groups. FREE ACCESS
• 12.  Managing Network Security Groups Using the Portal
  8m 59s
  In this video, you'll see how to implement Azure network security groups using the GUI. You'll see how the network security group controls traffic into and out of the virtual machine that the interface is attached to. An NSG allows you to control traffic to one or more virtual machines in your virtual network. FREE ACCESS
• 13.  Managing Network Security Groups Using the CLI
  6m 25s
  Virtual machines are the underlying work engine supporting many Azure services. In this demo, you'll learn to create a network security group using the CLI. You can use an Azure network security group to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network. Watch the video to find out more. FREE ACCESS
• 14.  Managing Network Security Groups Using PowerShell
  4m 56s
  In this video, you’ll watch a demo. In this demo, you’ll use Microsoft PowerShell to find a list of existing security groups. You’ll learn how to filter this list, and then build a new network security group in Azure. Then, you’ll learn how to create a resource group for a specific web application, and name it. You’ll also learn how to create a rule and set priority values. FREE ACCESS
• 15.  Course Summary
  1m
  In this video, you’ll summarize what you’ve learned in the course. You’ve discovered how to deploy and manage virtual machines, load balancers, and network security groups. You also learned about Azure virtual machines, managing Azure virtual machines. You examined Azure virtual machine scale sets and Azure load balancing and discussed Azure Dedicated Hosts and network security groups. Finally, you learned how to manage network security groups in a variety of ways. FREE ACCESS