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My new AZ-700 course is out now. And everything is 25% off to celebrate. Use the code: OCTOISBACK.
☁️ Subnetting, routing, filtering
☁️ Load-balancing (regionally/globally)
☁️ Hybrid routing and connectivity
☁️ Firewalls, NVAs, VWANs
learn.cantrill.io/p/azure-ne…
More fundamentals you need? Load balancing. Because you want your solution to be highly available.
Why load balancers?
When hosting apps in the cloud, reduce risk of outages by hosting across duplicate infrastructure.
But then you need a central entry point.
Azure has another product called Load Balancer also.
It distributes traffic to healthy instances and is a central access point for your users like App Gateway.
Unlike App Gateway, Load Balancer is not layer-7 aware.
☎ No one wants angry customers calling up for an offline app. So load balancers are a great technology to understand.
If you’re interested in getting hands-on, I have courses at learn.cloudlee.io.
👀 You can learn more about networking features like this in many of my Azure courses (it's critical to several roles). Check out learn.cloudlee.io or learn.cantrill.io if you're interested.
E.g. you have a web app, and you only want it available to users in your head office.
Most Azure public services have built-in firewalls that allow you to configure network restrictions like this.
FYI Microsoft are changing exam pricing.
You can grab more information here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/….
Pricing changes November 1 2024.
There are some decreases and increases.
Microsoft do exams and certs a bit different. Here’s some tips if you’re getting started.
Not sure what role to aim for? MS have a neat roadmap: aka.ms/traincertposter.
And if you are planning to get certified, they provide free practice tests: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ce….
One thing these resources don’t make clear is the difference between MS exams and certs.
For MS an exam and cert are two separate things. Sometimes passing one exam gives you a cert. Other times you need two exams to achieve one cert (like the expert certs).
E.g. for the Azure Architect cert, you must pass:
☁️ AZ-104 exam, and
☁️ AZ-305 exam
For the Azure DevOps cert, you must pass:
☁️ AZ-104 or AZ-204, and
☁️ AZ-400
If you’re looking for more guidance, I have courses at learn.cloudlee.io
Updates incoming for AZ-500 and AZ-700. Scheduled for EOM April.
🧠 My AZ-500 course is in early access now for 25% off: learn.cloudlee.io/p/microsof…
MS study guides here:
📝 AZ-500 Azure Security: learn.microsoft.com/en-au/cr…
📝 AZ-700 Azure Networking: learn.microsoft.com/en-au/cr…
Happy new year all! Quick reminder if you're looking for free resources to help gain Azure skills in 2024:
- Azure free credits: azure.microsoft.com/free
- M365 dev sandbox: developer.microsoft.com/micr…
And two free Getting Started courses here: learn.cloudlee.io/courses/ca…
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It's been 24+ hours now since techstudyslack (a ~90,000 member community) hosted via @SlackHQ just stopped working. I've had little response from support and don't see any evidence of a solution.
Techstudyslack is a thriving community where people can discuss tech/certification and career development.
I chose @SlackHQ ~5 years ago because it seemed like they supported communities like ours but I'm not so sure anymore.
Major investment by Microsoft in Australia of A$5 billion!
“Microsoft will invest A$5 billion in expanding its hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Australia over the next two years…”
news.microsoft.com/en-au/fea…
Really excited to announce my AZ-400 Microsoft DevOps course is out now!
Learn DevSecOps and build CICD pipelines in Azure DevOps (classic/YAML) and GitHub.
And use lots of other tools, technologies, and strategies too.
You can grab it here: learn.cloudlee.io.
If you're interested in learning more, I'm working on a lesson right now for my upcoming AZ-400 course (ETA June/July at learn.cloudlee.io).
Monitoring is useful, and Microsoft expects you know it across most roles (security, administration, development, DevOps, and more).
You can learn more about Azure Monitor, alerting, and others in my AZ-104 course also: learn.cloudlee.io/p/az-104-m…
#monitoring #azure #insights
