Monthly Archives: February 2018

Exam 70-533 Module 1-Lesson 5 – Managing Azure with Azure CLI

You can really use Azure PowerShell from both Windows and Linux platforms to script things but then there are times you feel like using a native Linux styled to do your scripting. In this lesson we go over how to use Azure CLI, specifically Azure CLI 2.0, to get connected and work with Azure resources from both Windows and Linux. I also go over how to use Azure CLI 2.0 from the new Azure Cloud Shell quite easily.

 

Exam 70-533 Module 1-Lesson 4 – Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell

This lesson is all about how to use Windows PowerShell to get connected to Azure subscription. I go over the need for Azure PowerShell and all the possible ways to get it installed through Web Platform Installer, PowerShell gallery, Microsoft MSI and Azure Cloud Shell for PowerShell. As a bonus I also show how Azure PowerShell can be installed and used on Linux platforms (I demonstrate this through Windows 10 Bash shell).

 

Exam 70-533 Module 1-Lesson 2 – Overview of Azure

In this lesson I provide a high level introduction to Microsoft Azure. I get into the details of Azure regions, datacenters, paired regions and how accounts and subscriptions play an integral part of Azure. I further divulge into the Azure billing and get into the various “pay” models that works for both personal and organizational use. Moving on, I discuss various Azure services and where to get the list of all Azure services. I end this lesson with all the management tools that Azure provides to interact with various Azure services.

Exam 70-533 Module 1-Lesson 1 – Cloud technology overview

In this session we take a ride to the past to discuss traditional infrastructure. I will get into details of the issues we had with tradition infrastructura and how virtualization and managed services came to the rescue. Further, I will divulge into how managed services with a mix of virtualization brought about the cloud technology. We will get a formal exposure of what “cloud technology” is defined as and what the definition really means. Following that we will get into advantages of cloud computing, the various cloud deployment models like private, public and hybrid cloud, and the various cloud services models like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.