Understanding Activities of Azure Operations
- Consider QT as an Organization Providing IT Services for Health Care, ECommerce and FinTech.
- We Have two Cloud Adminstrator Roles
- Organization Level => Jacob
- Business Unit Level => Jane
- Tasks are assigned to the cloud Admins via Ticketing Tools like Service Now/Remedy or in Some Agile Projects Jane (BU Level Admin) will be Part of project for few sprints (few weeks)
- Now Lets Look at Expectations of Organization Level Cloud Engineer
- Maintain Authentication in the Cloud (if required ensure the Users are Synced with Active Directory)
- Ensure all the necessary roles (RBAC) are created at the organization level to cater to BU/Project Needs
- Design and Implement Backup and Recovery Standard for the whole organization
- Setup Basic Monitoring and Alerting System
- Help Project Teams with System and Database Migrations
- Monitor Costs at the Org Level
- For Hybrid Cloud Setups, Ensure VPNs are available
- BU Level Cloud Engineer will have following expectations
- Monitor the deployment of the Project by using effecient Monitoring and Logging System
- Ensure the Deployments are automated
- Create Reusable Automation Scripts/Templates for effecient Deployments
- Troubleshoot failures
- Gain Access from Organization Level Admin to the deployments and optimize it
- Implement Cost Optimization Solutions
- Ensure BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) is Setup
To acheive the above Activities we would Learn the following Services offered By Azure
- Azure Monitoring Platform
- Monitor
- Logging
- Alerting
- Analytics
- Network Trouble Shooting
- Azure Site Recovery
- BCDR
- Azure Backup
- VMs
- Databases
Lab Setup
- Will Include
- A Virtual Network
- A Storage Account
- Virtual Machines
- Windows
- Linux
- Databases
- SQL Server
- Cache Server
- Cosmos DB
Virtual Network Setup of the above Lab
- Create a Resource Group operations
- Create a Virtual Network commercenet with ip range (address space) => 10.10.0.0/16
- Create three subnets in commercenet
- web => 10.10.0.0/24
- app => 10.10.1.0/24
- db => 10.10.2.0/24
Next Class Topics
- Add vm’s databases and start Operational activities
