LEARN AZURE NOW!

Level: introduction, no previous knowledge of the Cloud or Azure is required
Target audience: Web developers but also relevant to IT Pros
Type: Workshop (you must bring a laptop)
Coffee in the morning, lunch is not provided

Required: a laptop (Mac or Windows) with TCP port 3389 open (Remote Desktop), The Remote Desktop client and an active Azure account.

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

Instead of trying to cover every single Azure service, Azure Academy focuses on App Service and other services making sense for Web developers giving you a strong and concrete foundation that you can build on top of.

IT Pros will appreciate the fact that besides learning how to use the Azure Portal, they'll learn how to use the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) to automate and manage their tasks.

IS THIS FOR ME?

Developer

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 workshop, you should be able to select the right Azure services for the tasks at hand and create, deploy and manage Web apps on Azure.

Note that Azure supports many programming languages and we love them all but we do have some samples and demos that use C# and the .NET SDKs but many of the hands-on labs are about configuring and managing the Azure services so it doesn't matter. Back at work, you'll be able to use the SDKs of your choice.

IT Pro

You're an IT Pro and you've been tasked in deploying and managing a Web app to Azure. You want to understand how to support the dev team and how to use tools to help you with your tasks. At the end of this workshop, you should be able to use the Azure portal and the command line interface to create, automate and manage Azure services.

Note that this is a dev oriented workshop, we suggest that you "tag along" with a developer from your team (separate registration).

AGENDA 

* denotes a topic with hands-on "code along" 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*
• Using the Azure PowerShell module*
• App Service creation, understanding resource groups*
• Deployment
• Publishing using FTP*, Zip file, 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*
• Using the local Storage Emulator*
• 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*
• Selecting the right queuing service for the task at hand
• Background tasks with Web Jobs
• 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*
• Collecting and analyzing app telemetry using Application Insights*
• Troubleshooting using the Kudu tools*

Please consult the Azure Academy Website for more info and a detailed FAQ.