Cloud administration basics

Beginner
Administrator
Student
Azure

In this learning path, you will:

  • Provision resources.
  • Secure cloud resources.
  • Use virtualization.
  • Orchestrate your deployments and use a concept like infrastructure as code.
  • Monitor your resources.

In Partnership with Dr. Majd Sakr and Carnegie Mellon University.

Prerequisites

none

Modules in this learning path

Learn about the cloud, including the history, building blocks, and types on your way to becoming a Cloud Administrator.

Learn about the different types of resources available on the cloud and the technology behind how they work.

Learn about digital identities and how they can be managed and synchronized within an organization.

Discover virtualization and how it enables many technologies in the cloud, including virtual machines, containers and networks.

Discover what cloud elasticity means and different ways to scale your cloud resources.

Learn about how to automate cloud resource management with scripts and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

Monitoring how your cloud resources are performing is crucial to building reliable cloud applications. This module covers what monitoring is, why you need to do it, and how you can about monitoring your resources.