Course 20537-B: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack

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Course 20537-B: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack

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This five-day course will provide students with the key knowledge required to deploy and configure Microsoft Azure Stack.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for service administrators, devops and cloud architects who are interested in using Microsoft Azure Stack to provide cloud services to their end-users or customers from within their own datacenter.

Prerequisites

Course outline

Module 1: Overview of Azure Stack

Module Overview

In this first module, the key concepts associated with Azure Stack are described that will help you understand what Azure Stack is and the functionality it provides. You will also learn about the differentiators between Azure Stack, Microsoft Azure and Windows Azure Pack.

Lessons

What is Azure Stack ?
Comparing Azure Stack with Microsoft Azure
Comparing Azure Stack to Windows Azure Pack

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the key features and functionality of Azure Stack.
Understand the differences between Azure Stack and Microsoft Azure.
Understand the differences between Azure Stack and Windows Azure Pack.

Module 2: Foundational Components of Microsoft Azure Stack

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn about the Windows Server 2016 features that Azure Stack uses and optional System Center 2016 components that can be added to further manage and maintain an Azure Stack environment. You will also learn how Azure Stack manages authentication and the various authentication providers that are available.

Lessons

Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016
Identity and Authentication

Lab Sessions

Reviewing the Azure Stack Infrastructure

Lab Lessons

Reviewing the Azure Stack Infrastructure Components

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how Windows Server 2016 and the optional System Center 2016 features are used in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Understand how identity and authentication works in Microsoft Azure Stack.

Module 3: Deploying Microsoft Azure Stack

Module Overview

This module introduces some of the internal architecture of Azure Stack and how it forms the basis of the system.

Lessons

Software Defined Datacenter
Internal Architecture of Azure Stack
Azure Stack Infrastructure
Azure Stack Prerequisites
Planning and Installation of Azure Stack

Lab Sessions

Confirming prerequisites and installing Microsoft Azure Stack

Lab Lessons

Confirming the prerequisites
Confirming the installation was successful

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the Architecture of Microsoft Azure Stack.
Understand the prerequisites for Microsoft Azure Stack.
Install Microsoft Azure Stack.

Module 4: Offering Microsoft Azure Stack Resources

Module Overview

This module discusses some of the key features in Azure Stack that provide the mechanisms used by tenants when consuming resources such as virtual machines and SQL Server databases.

Lessons

Working with Plans and Offers
Microsoft Azure Stack Marketplace
Enabling Multi-Tenancy in Azure Stack
Integrating Azure Stack with Windows Azure Pack

Lab Sessions

Managing Offers and Plans in Microsoft Azure Stack

Lab Lessons

Configuring Plans
Configuring Offers
Subscribing to an Offer
Delegating Offers
Creating a new Marketplace Item

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure Offers and Plans in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Manage the Microsoft Azure Stack Marketplace.
Enable multi-tenancy in Azure Stack.
Integrate Azure Stack with Windows Azure Pack.

Module 5: Microsoft Azure Stack and DevOps

Module Overview

This module discusses the fundamentals of how Azure Stack enables organizations to leverage DevOps. It details the underpinnings of Azure Stack, the Azure Resource Manager, the SDKs and APIs available and also how configuration management technologies such as PowerShell Desired State Configuration, Chef and Puppet can be used to facilitate fast and consistent deployment of applications along with stability.

Lessons

Technologies used in Microsoft Azure Stack for DevOps
Azure Resource Manager Templates
Third-party Resource Providers

Lab Sessions

Debugging and Deploying ARM Templates

Lab Lessons

Using Windows PowerShell to obtain API versions
Debug an ARM Template with Visual Studio
Deploy a virtual machine using Azure CLI

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the technologies used by DevOps in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Understand Templates in Azure Resource Manager.
Understand the third-party Resource Providers available for Microsoft Azure Stack.

Module 6: Infrastructure as a Service and Microsoft Azure Stack

Module Overview

This module discusses Infrastructure as a Service in Azure Stack.

Lessons

Software Defined Datacenter
Hyper-V Network Virtualization
External Connectivity to Azure Stack
Azure Consistent Storage in Azure Stack
Virtual Machines in Azure Stack

Lab Sessions

Provisioning Storage and Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Stack

Lab Lessons

Creating a Subscription and Resource Groups
Creating Storage Accounts
Creating a Virtual Network
Creating Virtual Machines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the Software Defined Networking improvements with Microsoft Azure Stack and Windows Server 2016.
Configure Azure Stack Storage.
Deploy Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Stack.

Module 7: Platform as a Service and Microsoft Azure Stack

Module Overview

Stack brings Platform as Service (PaaS) based offerings from Microsoft Azure to Azure Stack. Microsoft Azure was originally designed for PaaS based application development with IaaS based services added later. With the initial release of Azure Stack, Microsoft are offering 4 PaaS based services: SQL and MySQL Databases App Service for websites Key Vault for securely storing secrets such as passwords and certificates Azure Functions for serverless compute. This Module will detail each offering and show how these can be utilized.

Lessons

Understanding the Platform as a Service
SQL Server and MySQL Server Providers in Microsoft Azure Stack
App Service Resource Provider
Azure Key Vault
Azure Functions

Lab Sessions

Configuring Platform as a Service in Azure Stack

Lab Lessons

Adding hosting servers
Configuring a Plan and Offer
Creating SQL Server databases
Configuring a Plan and Offer for App Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe Platform as a Service.
Configure the SQL and MySQL Resource Provider.
Configure the App Service Resource Provider.
Understand how Key Vault operates in Azure Stack.
Understand how Azure Functions operate in Azure Stack.

Module 8: Monitoring in Microsoft Azure Stack

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how Azure Stack is monitored and updated. You will also learn how to monitor guest workloads that tenants have provisioned using Azure stack. You will learn how to troubleshoot the core components of Azure Stack. Finally, you will learn how Azure Stack infrastructure is protected and how you can also protect Tenant workloads.

Lessons

Field Replaceable Unit
Azure Stack Control Plane Monitoring
Patching the Azure Stack Infrastructure
Monitoring Guest Workloads in Microsoft Azure Stack
Troubleshooting Azure Stack
Protecting Azure Stack and Tenant Workloads

Lab Sessions

Troubleshooting and Monitoring Microsoft Azure Stack and Guest Operating Systems

Lab Lessons

Monitoring Azure Stack
Monitoring Guest Operating Systems
Troubleshooting Azure Stack using the Audit Logs and Alerts

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the Field Replaceable Unit concept in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Describe Control Plane Monitoring in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Understand how Patching is managed in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Monitor Guest Workloads in Microsoft Azure Stack.
Troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Stack.
Protect Azure Stack and Tenant Workloads.

Module 9: License Microsoft Azure Stack and Billing Tenants

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how Azure Stack is licensed by Microsoft including the two charging models for Azure Stack and what other costs are typically involved in an Azure Stack deployment.

Lessons

How to License and Pay for Azure Stack
Azure Consistent Usage API
Business Costs and Models with Azure Stack

Lab Sessions

Obtaining Usage Information

Lab Lessons

Obtaining Azure Stack usage information

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand how Azure Stack is billed.
Use the Azure Consistent Usage API.
Understand business costs and models in Azure Stack.

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