Azure Live ProjectsMicrosoft Azure is an incredibly powerful cloud platform, and learning all of its various services and offerings can take a lot of time. Whether you’re new to Azure or just need a refresher on the basics, here are four Azure live projects that offer an amazing overview of what Azure has to offer. From web application deployment to Azure Data Factory, each project will give you a real sense of what it’s like to work with Azure and the products it offers, which will help you learn quickly and get up to speed on your new projects faster than ever before!

Azure is a cloud computing platform that offers a variety of services, including those for compute, storage, networking, and more. Microsoft’s Azure is an AI-driven cloud computing platform with services including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). In addition to analytics, virtual computing, networking, and storage, developers can use the solutions. Their existing applications can be run in the public cloud, or they can create and scale new applications using these services.
In addition to these services, Thinkcloudly offers live projects that can be used to learn about the platform and its capabilities. These four tutorials are great ways to get started with Azure.

Below are the 4 real-time azure live projects to practice:

Project 1 – To deploy a commercial web application on Azure cloud

If you’re looking to learn how to deploy a commercial web application on Azure, this project is for you. You’ll learn how to set up and configure an Azure account, create and manage virtual machines, storage accounts, and networking resources. Plus, you’ll get hands-on experience with deploying and managing a web application on Azure.

What is a web application?

A web application is a software program that runs on a web server, usually accessed by users through a web browser. Web applications are popular because they can be used by anyone with an internet connection. Some examples of web applications include online shopping, online banking, and social networking.

An Azure web app is a cloud-based service that allows you to create and deploy web applications. Azure web apps are built on top of the Azure App Service, which provides a managed and scalable environment for web applications. You can choose from three different deployment types: Web Apps, Web Jobs, and API Apps.
Web Apps are designed for business applications that accept user input and store data in a database. They can be written in different programming languages (including Python, PHP, Node.js, Java, C#) and are accessed via a URL. Web Jobs are scripts or programs that run either periodically or at an event triggered by an HTTP request. API Apps provide a set of endpoints through which external clients can access your resources without needing to have an understanding of your underlying architecture.

During this project you can learn a lot of skills by practicing them, such as:

  • Azure virtual machine
  • Creating and managing azure virtual network
  • Working with load balancers such as Azure application gateway
  • Custom domain
  • Creating and managing Azure Network Security Group (NSG)
  • Managing Azure resource group and subscriptions
  • Creating and managing traffic managers

Project 2 – To implement IAM in Azure with the help of Azure AD

IAM, or Identity and Access Management, is a critical part of any cloud-based infrastructure. And what better way to learn about it than by working on a live project? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at this Azure live project that can help you get started with IAM in Azure. You’ll be creating a users and groups identity in azure AD, you will be creating dynamic groups and secure the azure environment with conditional access policy, Identity protection policy.

What is IAM in Azure?

Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Azure is used to manage access to Azure resources. IAM consists of three components:

  • Users : Users are the individual accounts that can be granted access to Azure resources.
  • Groups : Groups are collections of users that can be given access to Azure resources.
  • Roles : Roles are pre-defined sets of permissions that can be assigned to users or groups.

IAM is used to control who has access to what within your Azure account. It’s also important for you to understand how RBAC works with IAM.
RBAC stands for Role Based Access Control and provides a flexible way to assign privileges based on specific tasks you want an individual user or group of users to perform in Azure. It’s best practice when working with RBAC policies not to assign more privileges than necessary as this creates less risk from human error due to having fewer accesses defined on the system.

During this project you can learn a below skills by practicing them:

  1. Azure Device identity management: You can learn Azure AD joining, Azure AD registration of devices and hybrid azure AD joining. You will learn how to troubleshoot the device joining issues using Dsregcmd /Status command. You will also learn managing  the devices from azure portal such as enable, disable and delete the device and many more things about device identity management.
  2. Users and Group management : You can learn how to create and manage users and groups, how security group and office 365 group are differ and how you can create query rules for dynamic group. You will observe the difference between member users.
  3. AD connect: Active directory connect is a tool to make hybrid cloud it helps you to connect and sync the users, groups and Devices from on-premise to Azure cloud. While working on this lab you will learn about windows AD too, you can understand the difference between Azure AD and Windows AD. You can experience the on-premise infrastructure. Learn and implement PTA and PHS authentication by doing this in  live Azure project.
  4. Security:  Conditional access policy and Identity protection policies are one of the best tool to control the access and fulfill the duty of an IAM administrator by making sure there is 100 percent productivity as well as strengthen the security. In this Azure live project on IAM you will be able to create conditional access policy and Identity protection policies and observe the various behavior on the bases of controls in conditional access policy.
  5. Configuring Governance and compliance: You will also configure and manage Azure RBAC role for providing fine grained access to resources on the bases of Roles such as Owner, Contributor, Reader, Deletion etc..

Project 3 – To implement Monitoring services and perform cloud cost optimization

Azure provides a ton of different services that can be used to monitor your applications and services. You can use these tools to optimize your costs and get alerted when something goes wrong. In this project, you’ll learn how to set up monitoring services and perform cloud cost optimization. This is a great way to learn about Azure and how it can be used in the real world. Plus, it’s a great way to get started with cloud computing.

Azure Monitoring

Azure Monitor is a great way to keep an eye on your web app’s performance. You can set up alerts to notify you when something goes wrong, and view detailed information about request and response times. Plus, you can use Azure Monitor to monitor other aspects of your app, like database performance or disk usage.
Monitoring tools are essential in every scenario, be it a small company or a large enterprise. This is a prioritized metric since it is important to monitor various components integrated into a business application to understand whether they are functioning properly.

Monitor, analyze, and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximize performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.

Azure Cost Optimization

If you’re looking to optimize your Azure cloud costs, this azure live project helps you get started. Azure cloud Cost Management is a great tool for getting started with cloud cost optimization. It provides you with an overview of your spend, helps you identify and fix overspending, and provides recommendations on how to optimize your costs.Azure Monitor is another great tool for cost optimization.
With it, you can monitor the performance of Azure resources as well as provide alerts when they deviate from expectations. You can also use it to configure alerts in advance so that they are automatically triggered when conditions exceed predefined thresholds.

During this project you can learn a below skills by practicing them:

  1. Azure Monitor : Configure and manage azure monitor tool. Use this Microsoft Application Insights suite, you can see and diagnose issues across different applications and dependencies. You can see the infrastructure problems that correlate with those caused by virtual machines and containers. Gain the ability to inspect your monitoring data by drilling in to Log Analytics.
  2. Azure Advisor: In this Azure live project on monitoring we can learn how to find and fix problems with resources before they impact your business. You will also learn about new features and services that can help you improve your productivity. Understand how to optimize your resource utilization and save money.
  3. Azure Sentinal: It helps you detect, investigate, and respond to threats across your entire environment. By using Azure live projects, you can get hands-on experience with this tool. Plus, you can learn from the pros and see how they use Azure Sentinel in the real world. Here are four great examples.
  4. Azure cost optimization:Azure provides a lot of features and services that can help you optimize your costs. In this Azure live project it shows how to take advantage of those features and save money on your Azure bill. It also covers the different ways to lower the cost of using Azure.

Project 4 – Copy data from a SQL Server database to Azure Blob storage using Azure Data Factory

This project will teach you how to use Azure Data Factory to copy and transform data in an Azure SQL Database. You’ll learn how to create an Azure Data Factory pipeline and configure it to run on a schedule. Plus, you’ll learn how to monitor the pipeline and view the data that’s been copied and transformed.

What is Azure Data factory?

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation. It offers a rich set of built-in connectors that can connect to all popular on-premises and cloud-based data sources such as relational databases, NoSQL databases, flat files, and Azure Data Lake Store.
You can use this system to extract the required data from any source, transform it in any way necessary (including filter, merge or aggregate), and load it into another target location such as an Azure SQL database or HDInsight cluster. You also have the option of using prebuilt templates from the Gallery to get started with your project quickly.

During this project you can learn a below skills by practicing them:

  1. Azure Data Factory:  In this project you can learn how to create workspaces for azure data factory. You also woll observe how to use several pipelines to copy and trasform data.
  2. Azure storage account: Learn how to store and retrieve data. You can use an Azure storage account to store any type of data, including blobs, files, queues, and tables. Plus, you can access your data from anywhere in the world via the internet.
  3. Azure SQL Database: You will learn how to create and configure Azure SQL Database.

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Final Thoughts:

Azure Live projects are a great way to learn about Azure and see it in action. Plus, they can be fun and rewarding. All you need is an idea of what you want to do and the time commitment (which is variable). Go forth and learn!
What live project are you going to tackle? As with everything, there’s no one right answer. Think carefully about your own background—what skills or knowledge gaps will be making a live project help close? What experience do you want to gain? And tell us in the comment. If you want to learn cloud computing you can explore AWS cloud practitioner certification and Azure Architect courses.