Solution Architecture Basics in Azure

• Basics of cloud architecture
• Documentation: Archimate, PlantUML
• Azure basics: Compute, Storage, Networking
• Azure Web App Service & Azure Function
• Bicep, ARM, AZ CLI
• Terraform

• Some understanding and experience of programming and scripting
• Your own PC

Day 1: Cloud basics: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Azure Basics: Compute, Storage, Networking, Portal basics, dashboards, subscriptions, management groups, resource groups + activity log, Calculator, Archimate, PlantUML

Day 2: Azure Compute: VMs, spot pricing, Web Apps, Container offerings, ACR, ACR tasks, Functions, Durable functions, Web App, Azure AI, exercises

Day 3: Azure Networking: VNET, peering, network topology, NSG, private link, service endpoints, DNS zones (public & private), VPN (VM vs Azure VPN), exercises

Day 4: Azure Storage: storage accounts, file shares, tables, queues, blobs, Cosmos DB, Managed disks & VM image managements

Day 5: Azure Monitor, App Insights, availability tests, powershell, Key Vault & WebApp, Azure Configuration, secrets & certificates, Entra, Application registrations

Day 6: Azure API, Bicep, ARM, powershell, az cli, Cloud Shell & exercises. Terraform introduction lecture: resource vs data, modules, tfvars, input/output vars, sensitive var, structures, state management, modules, tf base provider

Day 7: Terraform programming lectures & exercises: setup with Azure, external state storage (chicken or egg problem when AZ storage), TF cloud, diagrams, functions, dynamic blocks

Day 8: Terraform programming lectures & exercises: hands on project

Day 9: Terraform programming lectures & exercises: hands on project

Day 10: Terraform programming lectures & exercises: hands on project