A selection of useful materials on Azure

We have accumulated a lot of free materials on working with the cloud, so we decided to share with you the latest ones. Under the cat you will find a description of 6 courses and 12 books / guides on learning to work with Azure.

Free Azure Courses

In this section, we will tell you about Russian-language online courses on working with the Azure cloud of various levels of complexity. Please note that on the website you can find 5 additional courses on this topic.

Azure Basics
This is the first course of the series. You will learn about the basic concepts and tools of Azure, learn to work with the classic and new portals, Azure Powershell, Azure CLI. Course presenter Corey Hines will demonstrate basic Azure services, such as virtual machines, virtual networks, storage, Azure Active Directory, and application services. Take a course →

Microsoft Azure virtual machines
Virtual machines are the foundation of Microsoft Azure, they support IaaS implementation on platforms. It is important that any type of virtual machine can be deployed in an environment from both the Azure portal and Azure PowerShell. Corey Hines, the founder and architect of Learn on Demand, will guide you through the full life cycle of a virtual machine. Take a course →

Microsoft Azure Virtual Networks
Virtual network management, addressing and VPN connections setup are the main tasks of this course. Cory Heins will explain how to manage network traffic and load balancing using Azure DNS, Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager and Application Gateway. Take a course →

Microsoft Azure Storage Service
Storage is an integral part of any Azure service. The course covers storage for structured and unstructured data (BLOB objects), as well as various services that use Azure storage. It also focuses on daily management tasks such as backup, site recovery and storage analytics. Take a course →

Identity in Microsoft Azure
One of the foundations of any infrastructure is the Active Directory Identity Service. This course deals with Azure Active Directory, the integration of Azure Active Directory with on-site Active Directory. Module 3 will reveal the secrets of expanding on-site Active Directory capabilities through Azure AD Premium. Take a course →

Azure Workload Automation
Having mastered the skills of manually managing Azure services, you can move on to learning automation. The development of ARM templates, automatic runbook actions, and automatic configuration of virtual machines will be demonstrated by Corey Hines. Take a course →

Azure Databases
You will learn about the different types of database services available in Azure, as well as tools for preparing, monitoring and managing these services. The course focuses on the SQL Azure Database, although other database services, such as DocumentDB, are also covered. Take a course →

Free books and guides

Here you can find the latest books and guides from Microsoft on the subject of learning Azure.

1. Hyde: "On the way to the cloud . " From it you will learn more about working with Open Source products, containers, microservices, as well as about the possibility of building hybrid clouds.
2. E-book: Corporate Cloud Strategy . It is written on the basis of the real work of corporate IT departments with cloud systems and explains why corporations need clouds, which applications should start switching to the cloud, how the organization will change and other issues.
3. Guide: "Guidelines for the formation of a modern IT infrastructure" (eng). It is an easy-to-follow scheme for expanding the current IT environment to the cloud.
4. E-book: Azure Container Service: Optimized Cloud Hosting for Docker Applications . It describes the operation of the Azure Container Service cloud service, which greatly simplifies the process of creating and managing clusters of Linux virtual machines configured to work with Docker container applications.
5. Guide: “Cloud Architecture Patterns” (eng). The material will be useful to Java-developers. In it, you will find cloud architecture templates for the most popular corporate solutions: business analytics, e-commerce, business infrastructure, multi-channel marketing, DevOps and others.
6. Guide: “Bitnami Stacks on Microsoft Azure” . The Bitnami library contains images for many software solutions, starting from blogs and ending with intelligent solutions for business analysis, as well as stacks for developers on Node.JS, Ruby On Rails, Django, and so on.
7. Guide: “Deploying Red Hat in Microsoft Azure” (eng). It contains detailed instructions for several deployment scenarios.
8. Guide: “Fast application delivery with Microsoft and CloudBees” (eng). Cheat Sheet with background information on this topic.
9. E-book: Microsoft Loves Linux (eng). If you have any questions about this statement, you are right here.
10. Guide: "We leave only the coding . " This is a guide for mobile application developers to help speed up coding by eliminating non-coding tasks.
11. Guide: "We leave only the coding . " And this is a guide for web developers, which will help speed up writing code by eliminating non-coding tasks.
12. Guide: "Basic information about the Azure platform - a guide for developers . " A material for beginners, from which you will learn how the set of services of the application platform will help you choose the architectural approaches and the most common development patterns when creating modern applications.

We will be glad if you tell in the comments about books and courses on the topic that were useful to you. :)
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We remind you that you can try Microsoft Azure for free here .