Cloud Platform Automation 101

DevOpsGroup Academy Course Syllabus

Cloud Platform Automation 101 Course Overview

For companies with classic infrastructure or operations teams who are planning to migrate to or

start using a cloud platform there is a requirement to take staff on the journey to work in a new way

which changes their role to that of perhaps Cloud/DevOps engineer or an SRE role.

At DevOpsGroup we understand that for these teams new to Azure, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines

there is a big challenge to upskill in these new areas. DevOpsGroup have created this course providing fundamental

training on Azure, IaC using Terraform and CI/CD deployments using Azure DevOps to provide fast track training,

enabling your teams to adapt and thrive.

Our course is designed and delivered by DevOpsGroup Consultants and Engineers who have from-the-trenches

experience of deploying solutions to the cloud using industry best practice. The course gives candidates hands-on

experience of deploying resources using tools in a real-life scenario which they can take back to their roles.

Day 1: Microsoft Azure Basics and Creating Infrastructure Using the Portal

Day 2: Terraform Zero to Hero

Day 3: Infrastructure as Code with Azure DevOps

Day 4: Applying your knowledge to real scenarios

Learning Objectives

A four day 101 event comprising hands-on labs that cover deploying resources

manually in the Azure Portal, Deploying resources using Infrastructure-as-

Code (Terraform) and via CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. Candidates will

build a load balanced web farm running a basic application. Candidates will:

• Gain an understanding of the tools used to manage Azure resources

• Learn how to troubleshoot Azure resources

• Learn how to deploy resources manually to Azure using the Portal

• Gain an understanding of how Terraform works

• Learn how to deploy resources to Azure using using Infrastructure-as-

Code (Terraform)

• Learn about some of the advanced Terraform functions and how to

apply them to their configurations

• Configure a basic continuous Integration pipeline in Azure DevOps to

deploy Azure Resources

• Learn how to deploy a working solution including infrastructure and

application using IaC and CI/CD Pipelines

Course Syllabus

Microsoft Azure Basics and Creating Infrastructure

Using the Portal

• Gain an understanding of the different tools we can use to manage

Azure

• Learn about the different user security features

• Understand the range of resources in Azure

• Get hands on experience of managing and deploying Azure resources

via the portal

• Learn how to monitor resources in Azure

• Learn how to troubleshoot issues on Azure resources

Terraform Zero to Hero

• Learn how Terraform works

• Learn some advanced Terraform functions

• Hands-on experience of deploying resources to Azure using Terraform

• Explore how incremental deployments work

• Gain an understanding of how we can configure VMs using DSC

• Deploy the entire solution including a working website

Infrastructure as Code with Azure DevOps

• Understand the need for automating the management of IaC through

pipelines

• Gain a general overview of Azure DevOps

• Understand the features that support working with code

• Hands-on experience of deploying infrastructure through a pipeline

• Hands-on experience of deploying an application through a pipeline (to

infrastructure deployed through a pipeline)

• How to create dashboards to make work visible

Applying your knowledge to real scenarios

• Complete any remaining lab work

• Put what you have learnt into practice with a Fresh deployment

• Deploy a WebApp using a base template from Terrafom

• Adapt the template to be re-usable across environments

Target Audience

This course is for anyone that needs to understand how to use Azure,

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Azure DevOps Services to deploy cloud

infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines enabling them to deploy resources in

a consistent repeatable manner. This course is relevant to infrastructure or

operations teams who are planning to take their first steps in migrating to

or using Azure as their cloud platform. The course is also relevant to those

teams who have a good understanding of Azure but want to take the next

step in taking an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach to deployments.

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