Deploy & Administer Linux Virtual Machines on Azure (AZ-1007)
In this learning path, you prepare for the Applied Skill, Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Microsoft Azure.
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Prerequisites:
- Experience using the Azure portal and CLI to create resources.
- Familiarity with identity management and role-based access control.
- Experience creating and configuring Azure virtual machines.
- Working knowledge of administering operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
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Module in the Learning Path:
- Configure Virtual Machines
- Add and Size Disk in Azure Virtual Machines
- Monitor Your Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor
- Protect Your Virtual Machines by Using Azure Backup
- Manage Virtual Machines with the Azure CLI
- Implement Access Management for Azure Resources
- Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync
- Copy and Move Blobs from One Container or Storage Account to Another Using the AzCopy Command
- Guided Project: Deploy & Administer Linux Virtual Machines on Azure
Course Outline:
Configure virtual machines:
- Learn how to configure virtual machines including sizing, storage, and connections.
- Review cloud services responsibilities
- Plan virtual machines
- Determine virtual machine sizing
- Determine virtual machine storage
- Create virtual machines in the Azure portal
- Connect to virtual machines
- Interactive lab simulation
Add & Size Disks in Azure Virtual Machines:
- Understand and create the different types of disk storage available to Azure virtual machines (VMs).
- Understand storage options for virtual machines (VMs)
- Exercise – Add a data disk to a VM
- Determine whether to use premium storage
- Resize virtual machine disks
- Exercise – Resize a VM disk
Monitor Your Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor:
- Learn how to monitor your Azure VMs by using Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host and client metrics and logs.
- Monitoring for Azure VMs
- Monitor VM host data
- Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
- Collect client performance counters by using VM insights
- Collect VM client event logs
Protect Your Virtual Machines by Using Azure Backup:
- Use Azure Backup to help protect on-premises servers, virtual machines, SQL Server, Azure file shares, and other workloads.
- Azure Backup features and scenarios
- Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
- Exercise – Back up an Azure virtual machine
- Restore virtual machine data
- Exercise – Restore Azure virtual machine data
Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI:
- Learn how to use the cross-platform Azure CLI to create, start, stop, and perform other management tasks related to virtual machines in Azure.
- What is the Azure CLI?
- Exercise – Create a virtual machine
- Exercise – Test your new virtual machine
- Exercise – Explore other VM images
- Exercise – Sizing VMs properly
- Exercise – Query system and runtime information about the VM
- Exercise – Start and stop your VM with the Azure CLI
- Exercise – Install software on your VM
Implement access management for Azure resources:
- Explore how to use built-in Azure roles, managed identities, and RBAC-policy to control access to Azure resources. Identity is the key to secure solutions.
- Assign Azure roles
- Configure custom Azure roles
- Create and configure managed identities
- Access Azure resources with managed identities
- Analyze Azure role permissions
- Configure Azure Key Vault RBAC policies
- Retrieve objects from Azure Key Vault
- Explore Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync:
- Learn how to configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync.
- Compare storage for file shares and blob data
- Manage Azure file shares
- Create file share snapshots
- Implement soft delete for Azure Files
- Use Azure Storage Explorer
- Deploy Azure File Sync
Copy and move blobs from one container or storage account to another using the AzCopy command:
- Learn how to use AzCopy to copy and move blobs between contains and storage accounts both synchronously and asynchronously.
- Move Azure Storage blobs using AzCopy
- Exercise – Move Azure Storage blobs using AzCopy
Guided Project: Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure:
- In this guided project module, you prepare and study for the Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure Applied Skill.
- Exercise – Create and configure Linux virtual machines
- Exercise – Monitor virtual machines
- Exercise – Configure storage for virtual machines
- Exercise – Back up virtual machines
