Advanced Azure DevOps and AKS Patterns for Scalable Solutions

Those who complete this course will be able to optimize cloud costs, leverage Azure and Azure DevOps features to improve DevOps in current and future organizations.  They will be able to provide best practices and pipeline guidance to development teams as well as lead devops projects knowing a rich set of options available in Azure and Azure DevOps

This course assumes internet connectivity and the use of a bash shell.  I use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10 as well as Terminal on a Mac in most demos. WSL is free and generally available for Windows 10 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10)

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Virtually all sections of this course either use free tier projects or short term lower cost cloud objects. In developing this course, I have managed to keep my spend under $10 and users who remove resource groups at the end of sections should expect similar results (That said, we cannot make promises on behalf of Microsoft or Microsoft Azure so please use the Azure Subscription portal, Cost Analysis and Cost Alerts at all time to avoid unnecessary spend [Azure Portal/Subscriptions/Cost Management/Cost Analysis])

Yes!  This course uses Kuberentes (specifically EKS and K3S), however the bulk of this course is introducing systems and patterns with examples.  We wish to provide a rich set of skills around Azure and Azure DevOps to enable participants to grow in their current role or successfully interview for a better role.

Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of cloud services and basic DevOps principles and tools (such as CI/CD and git). Users will encounter examples with Bash and the Azure Command Line client and should be comfortable with a bash shell. An Azure DevOps organization (One can sign up for free here: https://dev.azure.com/. An Azure Subscription (https://portal.azure.com)