Cloud computing impacts all careers, and an awareness of the opportunities associated with this emerging field is critical. From backup and storage to PaaS, SaaS, microservices, and web services, get the essential knowledge and skills you need for a career in cloud development.Learn the Azure storage, hosting, and deployment offerings.Explore the key services available to Azure developers.Practicecreating your own application in Azure.
Add intelligent search to your apps. Understand how to use the Microsoft Cognitive Services search APIs to tap into billions of webpages, images, videos, and news results.Microsoft Cognitive Services opens up artificial intelligence to every developer. Search is a core pillar of Cognitive Services, allowing your application to tap into an ad-free, internet-scale search engineâMicrosoft Bingâwith access to billions of webpages, images, videos, and news results. This course shows how to use the search APIs in Cognitive Services to execute simple text-based, image, and video searches. Plus, explore the Bing Autosuggest API, which allows you to submit a query and return a list of suggested terms that other users have entered, and Bing Custom Search, which restricts search results to the domains, sites, and webpages that you choose.
Prepare for the VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations exam (2V0-01.19). Learn how to deploy and administer virtual machines and applications.VMware vSphere is everywhere. Nonvirtualized data centers are a thing of the past; in order to stay relevantâand scale infrastructure to meet business needsâyou must understand vSphere. vSphere 6.7 Foundations is an eight-part series designed for anyone who wants to learn vSphere, including absolute beginners, and develop the knowledge to pass the VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations exam (2V0-01.19). In this course, instructor Rick Crisci explains how to deploy and administer virtual machines and applications. Follow along with nine hands-on demos, as Rick shows how to create VMs and vApps, install VMware Tools, clone VMs, and speed up your workflow with VM templates and snapshots.This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.
Take your Kubernetes knowledge from theory to practice. Learn how to use Kubernetes to develop and run real-world applications.Take your Kubernetes knowledge from theory to practice. Learn how to use Kubernetes to develop and run real-world applications. Instructor Matt Turner starts by showing you how to run local clusters, containers, and pods; execute commands; and view activity from the command line as well as the Kubernetes dashboard. Next, discover how to orchestrate practical workloads, including batch workloads with jobs and cron jobs. Matt then shows how to make Kubernetes smarter and safer using the built-in resource management, scheduling, and security tools. He also explores some advanced deployment patterns using namespaces, sidecars, and extensions like operators. Plus, discover tools and techniques to take your Kubernetes development further, such as manifest file generation with Helm, advanced debugging with kubectl commands, and faster and more frictionless deployments with Telepresence.Note: This course was also designed to help prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) examination from the Linux Foundation. Learn more about the certification and exam details at https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-application-developer-ckad/".
Learn how to use Azure Event Grid for event-routing services.Azure Event Grid is a fully managed, intelligent event-routing service that allows for uniform and efficient event consumption using a publish-subscribe model. An alternative to expensive polling, Event Grid allows your services to talk to each other more efficiently and securely. This course demonstrates how to react to relevant events across Azure in near real-time fashion. Get an overview of Event Grid, and learn how it compares to other routing services: Service Bus, Event Hubs, and Queue Storage. Review the security features, and see how Event Grid handles message delivery when it doesn't get a response from an endpoint. Instructor Sahil Malik then demonstrates a practical use case for the technology, using Event Grid to react to Azure Blog Storage events.IntroductionEvent routing with Azure Event GridWhat you should know1. Event Grid OverviewWhat is Azure Event Grid?Compare messaging services2. Event Grid ConceptsImportant terms and conceptsSecurity and authenticationDelivery and retry3. Event Grid with Azure Blob StorageCreate a storage accountCreate storage account for function appCreate a function appAssociate the function app with storageAdd an Azure function as a subscriberAdd an Event Grid subscriptionDemonstrate Event Grid in actionConclusionNext steps
Learn how to use the diagnostics, instrumentation, and logging tools in Microsoft Azure to manage the health, security, performance, and cost of Azure services and systems.Azure is a complex ecosystem. Diagnosing issues can be difficult with so many services and systemsâbut it's critical to get right. This course takes an Azure-centric approach to diagnosing, instrumentation, and logging with Azure applications. Instructor Sahil Malik explains how to use Application Insights to track and record exceptions; perform diagnostic logging; and view health, activity, and usage metrics in Azure Monitor. He also shows how to use Azure Monitor to track virtual machines and containers, monitor network conditions, and scale services automatically based on predefined rules. Plus, learn how to optimize your deployments with Azure Advisor security and performance recommendations. With these tools and tips, you can gain deeper insights into resources you have provisioned both on-premises and in the Azure cloud.
Learn about Common Language Runtime (CLR) bytecode, and discover how to use it to manage virtual machines in Windows applications.If you know how to speak intermediate language (IL), you have a window into the world as the .NET runtime sees it. In this course, learn about using Common Language Runtime (CLR) bytecode to manage virtual machines in Windows applications, and discover how to speak IL like a pro. Instructor Ted Neward helps to familiarize you with the basics of IL, and walks through this assembly language's syntax. Ted dives into working with ILDasm and ILasm, discusses classes, CIL opcodes and operands, and more.
Get an overview of Azure Functions—an event-driven, serverless compute platform—and review scenarios for integration with other Azure cloud services.Azure Functions is an event-driven, serverless compute platform that enables on-demand code generation. If you want to build serverless solutions using Microsoft Azureâor you're just curious about how Azure Functions worksâthen this course is for you. Join instructor Tiago Costa as he provides a comprehensive overview of Azure Functions and shares real-world scenarios for integration with other Azure cloud services. Throughout the course, Tiago covers basic concepts such as the main trigger types, as well as more advanced features, including how to implement a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with Azure Functions. To wrap up, he shares real-world examples of how Azure Functions can be used to address customer requests.IntroductionAzure Functions and app modernizationWhat you should know1. Azure Functions OverviewIntroduction to Azure FunctionsCreating your first Azure FunctionCreating Azure Functions in VS CodeWhat is serverless?Azure Functions pricingAzure Function using PowerShellAzure Functions using other languages2. Triggers and BindingsWhat are triggers and bindings?Timer triggersHTTP triggersAzure Blob Storage triggersAzure Queue Storage triggersOther triggers3. Azure Functions Advanced FeaturesImplementing a custom domain name and SSLIntegration with Azure Key VaultCI/CD of Azure FunctionsImplementing CORS4. Real-World ExamplesPurchase order generation architectureAnalyzing tweets sentiment architectureDigital city with Azure FunctionsEmployee onboardingConclusionNext steps
This course shows you how to use secure tokens generated by the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) to connect to Azure services in a secure manner.In this course, instructor Sidney Andrews walks users through how to use tokens with Azure Services, how to register common Azure service APIs in Azure Active Directory, and how to connect securely to Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database. Learn how to search the catalog of APIs available in the Azure AD portal experience and how to configure API permissions for the Microsoft Graph. Find out how to configure the API permissions of various Azure services and how to read and understand examples of scopes for APIs. Explore the difference between application and delegated permissions for an API. Discover how to grant administrator consent. Follow the different steps to connect to an Azure SQL database or to Azure storage using Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) tokens. In conclusion, learn about connecting to Azure Cognitive Services using MSAL tokens.
Learn what it takes to design a robust DevOps strategy as you study for the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam. This course maps to the Design a DevOps strategy domain.As DevOps practices continue to increase in popularity, organizations are ramping up their search for professionals who can implement them. Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification can set you apart from other professionals vying for such roles. In this course, join DevOps architect Paul Hacker as he prepares you to ace the Design a DevOps strategy domain in Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400), the required exam for this certification. Throughout this course, Paul covers how to prepare for DevOps by identifying the types of metrics and KPIs to track; define a DevOps-friendly team and organizational structure; design an agile work management approach; improve the security of your software with smart development practices; and more.
Get started with Microsoft Cognitive Services, and discover how to embed AI in your applications to enable those apps to see, speak, understand, and interpret the needs of your users.The Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs allow developers to embed AI in their applications to enable those apps to see, speak, understand, and interpret the needs of users. In this course, get started with Microsoft Cognitive Services, and discover how to work with the Vision, Speech, and Language APIs. Learn how the Vision API can recognize the details of a submitted image, how to add the necessary code to target the speech-to-text functionality of the Speech API, how to write code specific to the Bing Spell Check APIâwhich helps users type with greater accuracyâand more. Upon completing this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge you need to leverage intelligent algorithms that can add value to your apps.
Learn how to secure your sites with HTTPS using SSL certificates.All websites should be using secure connections over HTTPS by default. Web browsers have evolved and warn users whenever sites allow insecure connections. At the same time, the Let's Encrypt project has made it easy to install SSL certificates for free. In this course, instructor Kevin Skoglund explains what an SSL certificate is, how it is used to encrypt communications between a server and a browser, and how to choose the domain scope and validation type. He demonstrates how to install free certificates from Let's Encrypt using Certbot or install purchased certificates from a traditional certificate authority. He shows how to configure the web server to default to HTTPS and how HSTS directives can tell browsers to always use HTTPS.
Discover how to leverage the Microsoft cybersecurity stack to more effectively protect corporate information—on any device and in any cloud.Today's users expect to be productive wherever they are. IT pros must look beyond the traditional network perimeter model, and discover how to design and implement a comprehensive strategy for protecting corporate information. The Microsoft Cybersecurity Stack series shows how to use the Microsoft cybersecurity stack to strengthen your organization's security posture.In this course, Microsoft MVP Pete Zerger demonstrates how to leverage the Microsoft cybersecurity stack to more effectively protect corporate informationâon any device and in any cloud. Pete explains how to use Azure Information Protection (AIP) and secure data on mobile devices. He also covers identifying and controlling shadow IT and securing structured data in Azure.
Get a cloud administrator's view of Azure. Learn how to use its cloud-based storage and networking services, which can scale up or down as your organization changes.Get a cloud administrator's view of Microsoft Azure. David Elfassy covers the essentials of Azure, providing an inside look at working with its cloud-based storage and networking services, which can scale up or down as your organization changes. He goes over Azure management tools, shares tactics for controlling costs, and shows how to manage your Azure account and configure options via PowerShell scripting. Plus, he details how to set up services successfully, including web apps, virtual machines, Active Directory, and VPNs.
Get an overview of the Microsoft Azure Architect Design (AZ-304) exam. Explore the prerequisites and the five domains of the exam.The Microsoft Azure Architect: Design (AZ-304) exam tests your understanding of how to build an effective Azure strategy for an organization. It is one of two required exams for becoming a certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert. In this course, instructor and Microsoft trainer Scott Duffy provides insights into the structure of the exam, recommended prerequisites, and skills tested. Explore the main objectives in the five domainsâdesign monitoring, design identity and security, design data storage, design business continuity, and design infrastructureâand get study tips for maximizing your performance on exam day.