1 - Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service Compute Solutions (10-15%).md

AZ-203: Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service Compute Solutions (10-15%)

Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM)

• For the disks, focus on encryption basics and how key vault is related
• creating ARM templates - review the ARM templates in the quickstart templates
• Provision VMs
  • Quickstart: Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure with PowerShell
  • Quickstart: Create a Windows virtual machine with the Azure CLI
  • Quickstart: Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure with PowerShell
  • Quickstart: Create a Linux virtual machine with the Azure CLI
  • Create and manage Windows VMs in Azure using C#
• Create ARM templates
  • Create Azure Resource Manager template
  • Quickstart: Create Azure Resource Manager templates by using Visual Studio Code
• Configure Azure Disk Encryption for VMs
  • Encrypt virtual disks on a Windows VM
  • How to encrypt a Linux virtual machine in Azure

Implement batch jobs by using Azure Batch Services

• for batch jobs, focus on knowing how to use the .NET SDK for creating jobs, setting them up, and executing.
• the batch .NET quickstart is worth reviewing
• skim through Azure CLI and how to manage batch resources
• Manage batch jobs by using Batch Service API
  • Overview of Batch APIs and tools
  • Persist task data to Azure Storage with the Batch service API
  • Persist job and task data to Azure Storage with the Batch File Conventions library for .NET
• Run a batch job by using Azure CLI, Azure portal, and other tools
  • Quickstart: Run your first Batch job with the Azure CLI
  • Quickstart: Run your first Batch job in the Azure portal
  • Quickstart: Run your first Azure Batch job with the .NET API
  • Quickstart: Run your first Batch job with the Python API
• Write code to run an Azure Batch Services batch job
  • Persist task data to Azure Storage with the Batch service API
  • Use Azure Batch CLI templates and file transfer

Create containerized solutions

• Know how to use the CLI at least for basic management of ACR

• Create an Azure Container Registry, create, prep, and push images to it

• Create an Azure Managed Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (including the service principal option)
  • Quickstart: Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using the Azure CLI

• Create container images for solutions

  • Tutorial: Create a container image for deployment to Azure Container Instances

• Publish an image to the Azure Container Registry

  • Tutorial: Deploy an Azure container registry and push a container image

• Run containers by using Azure Container Instance or AKS

  • Tutorial: Deploy a container application to Azure Container Instances
  • Quickstart: Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using the Azure portal