Introduction to Cloud Computing

• A short history
• Client Server Computing Concepts
• Challenges with Distributed Computing
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Why Cloud Computing?
• Benefits of Cloud Computing

Cloud Architectures

• How do cloud architectures compare to non-cloud?
• Stateless and stateful architectures
• REST and HATEOAS
• Building for the cloud - Thinking in terms of cloud architectures
• Handling failures in the cloud
• Understanding the idea of completely replicable setups

Web Application Engineering in the Cloud

• Domain Name Management
• Role of Load Balancers
• Web Servers and Application Servers
• Cloud Storage
• Relational Databases
• NoSQL databases
• Scaling datastores
• Storing and analyzing unstructured data in the cloud
• Block storage v/s Object storage
• Big Data Storage & Analysis
• Eliminating SPOFs
• Achieving high scalability and availability

Networking Basics

• Understanding Networking Concepts
• TCP/IP
• Application Protocols
• Understanding Linux Files and Network Tooling
• ifconfig
• dig
• ping
• traceroute
• netstat
• tcpdump
• resolv.conf
• ssh
• scp/rsh

Introduction to Azure Services

• An overview of Azure Services
• Registering for Azure Services
• Understanding subscriptions, cost and Azure support
• Compute, Networking, Security, IAM and Storage Services
• Database and Cache Services
• Azure Architectural Concepts
• Azure Solutions

Azure Virtual Machines

• Introduction to the Azure Portal
• Introduction to Resource Groups and Resources
• Regions and Availability Zones
• Choosing the image
• Understanding VM sizes
• Generating SSH public keys
• Inbound port rules
• Choosing the disk type - ephemeral disks vs remote Azure storage
• Adding data disks
• Reservations
• Creating VM images
• Monitoring and alerts

Networking and Security Services

• Creation of Virtual Networks
• DDoS protection
• Azure Firewalls
• Microsoft Trust Center (overview – no hands-on)
• Security Center
• Key Vaults

Identity and Access Managment Services

• Creating users
• Assigning/removing resource group permissions to users
• Checking audit logs
• Azure AD

Working with Load Balancers

• Creating a load balancer
• Public v/s Internal load balancer
• Adding VMs to the load balancer
• Creating backend pools
• Creating health probes
• Defining Load Balancer rules
• Testing the Load Balancer

Databases and Storage

• Database servers & Databases
• SQL Server v/s MySQL v/s PostgreSQL
• Connecting to the database from Java
• Cosmos DB
• Working with Storage Accounts
• Working with blobs, files, queues and table data
• Using storage explorer
• Creating Shared Access Signature

Interacting with Azure programmatically

• Azure management tools
• Using Azure CLI
• Azure Cloud Shell

Other Services (Overview)

• Azure governance methodologies
• Privacy, Compliance and Data Protection standards in Azure
• Function App
• App Services
• Working with Containers

Case Studies

• Building a simple web application in the cloud
• Building a community based photo/video sharing site
• Building an ad-serving site in the cloud