Azure Lab Intro
I recently was part of an internal project that set forth to introduce the greater Engineering team to the Azure/AWS platforms. As the world and the company I work expand their footprint in the public cloud, it has become necessary for us as engineers to expand our knowledge in the same space. Our project looked at how we could not only introduce the concepts in cloud, but give some experience within the platforms themselves. All within a timeframe that doesnt take people out fo the field weeks at a time.
This became a presenation that took the participant through basic and more advanced setup within the Azure platform, explained concepts “The Why” and well as showed them the “How” while they followed along with configuration. It was all int he context of setting up an environment which supports Veeam’s backup in this space, but with a focus on the Public Cloud portion, and not just another Veeam demo. All during a pandemic which required all participants do so from the “comfort” of their own homes.
I have decided to take this content, repackage it for a blog (maybe add additional detail) and use it to get my site started. I aim to release this over the next few weeks in sections- explaining the concepts, and what I learned hwile working on this project over the past few months. My hope is to not to just get this blog off ths ground, but that it may inspire discussion , ideas, maybe debate, or perhaps just understand what is needed to support Veeam’s solution.
The Lab took the participants through Networking, Storage, Compute, Security and Data Protection. the following, which I will break into separate posts over the following weeks.
Azure Resource Manager Intro
Resource Groups
Azure Networking Basics
Storage and Compute
Network Security Groups
Private Endpoint Configuration
Deployment and Configuration of the Veeam Backup for Azure Appliance
This will great smaller and easier digestable sections, that when put together allow for a complete Azure lab. The reader of this is then free to check out a section or follow along through the whole lab. And adjust where prudent.
Let’s get into it!