Designing an Azure Compute Infrastructure

Microsoft Azure offers services for a wide variety of compute-related needs, including traditional compute resources like virtual machines, as well as serverless and container-based services. In this lesson, you will learn how to design a compute infrastructure using the appropriate Azure services.

Some of the highlights include:

• Designing highly available implementations using fault domains, update domains, availability sets, scale sets, availability zones, and multi-region deployments
• Ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery using Azure Backup, System Center DPM, and Azure Recovery Services
• Creating event-driven functions in a serverless environment using Azure Functions and Azure Log Apps
• Designing microservices-based applications using Azure Container Service, which supports Kubernetes, and Azure Service Fabric, which is Microsoft’s proprietary container orchestrator
• Deploying high-performance web applications with autoscaling using Azure App Service
• Managing and securing APIs using Azure API Management and Azure Active Directory
• Running compute-intensive jobs on clusters of servers using Azure Batch and Azure Batch AI

Learning Objectives

• Design Azure solutions using virtual machines, serverless computing, and microservices
• Design web solutions using Azure App Service
• Run compute-intensive applications using Azure Batch

Intended Audience

• People who want to become Azure cloud architects
• People preparing for a Microsoft Azure certification exam

Prerequisites

• General knowledge of IT architecture