Azure Classroom notes 30/Jan/2024

Operations

Story of LT Corp

• LT Corp (hypotetical) is an retail industry gaint.
• To operate their business they maintain applications in data centers
• This organization wants to transform to Cloud (Azure)
  
• To perform this transform, list out the
  • server inventory
  • software inventory
  • application inventory

Datacenter

• Datacenter: Generally in datacenters, we have racks with blade server.
  
• To maintain this datacenters, we need different skills
  • networking
  • electrical engineers
  • vmware admins
  • windows admins
  • linux admins
  • IT Engineer
  • DBA
• Work in datacenter
  • Windows/Linux Admin:
    • Updates (Patching)
    • Troubleshooting failures
    • Installing and configuring applications
    • BCDR ( Business Continuity & Diaster Recovery )
  • DBA
    • Installation and configuration
    • updates (Patching)
    • BCDR ( Business Continuity & Diaster Recovery )

Terms

• Single Point of Failure
• Redundancy
• High Availability
• Fault-tolerance

Cloud

• Cloud is all about using some one else’s hardware or infra.
• This eliminates all the physical networking, physical server maintenance activities for us, But generally the virtual infra (resources) which are created using services will have shared responsibility.

Next steps

• Cloud Infra
• Azure Account
• Landing Zone
• Cloud Adoption framework.