The following video is for those preparing for the AZ-900, Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Certification. This video covers the skills “describe cloud service types” found under “describe cloud concepts” of the published skills measured. Skills include IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the shared responsibility model.
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Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template Specs are a first-party solution for storing and managing ARM Templates. With Template Specs, ARM templates are uploaded to Azure and managed as an Azure resource, including access control with RBAC security. Template Specs also support versioning and adding linked templates to the Template Spec to create a complete package for ARM deployments.
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In this video, we go over how to get scheduled events for an Azure virtual machine by querying the Instance Metadata service API endpoint with a PowerShell Scheduled Task. That data is then sent to a Log Analytics Workspace to be queried or alerted on.
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In this post and accompanying video, we go over Azure Automanage. Automanage is an Azure solution to automate management of IaaS servers within the Cloud Adoption Frameworks best practices. This post gives an overview of the services. The video reviews the service and provides a demonstration of on-boarding a server. After that, we go on to review settings on a server that is part of Azure Automanage.
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