Microsoft Azure

- [Instructor] Microsoft is one of the major cloud service providers with its Azure cloud. Let's take a look at what it offers. To do this, you can set up a free account for up to 12 months use. I've already set up my account and I've logged into the management console. The console shows the common and most often used services and we can see more services by clicking on the arrow. This shows some further services and adds a menu at the left to all the services. We can see at the top of the menu that we have compute networking and storage as we'd expect. Azure also offers web and mobile services and containers and database. We can see the more esoteric services also, artificial intelligence and machine learning, internet of things, mixed reality and others. Towards the bottom of the list, we can see the identity and security services. Let's check out the compute services from Azure. We can see a large number of different services. There's the basic virtual machine service, and also the Docker container service. We can also see services for operating systems and disks, which would be associated with our virtual machines. Two further types of compute service that we might want to think about, are the Azure app service for web-oriented applications and the serverless computing with Azure logic apps and functions. If we check out web, we can see this categories, basically the app service that we saw in compute with some associated services. We might want to use the cloud to store our photographs and files as well as to hold structured data for applications. Storage services come in various forms, basic storage accounts, data lakes, and storage boxes. Further down in databases is where we find SQL and Cosmos databases. Let's see how easy it is to use Azure, to set up and launch an operating platform. The domain portal we can click on virtual machines and get to our virtual machine directory page. At the bottom, we can see the option to create a virtual machine. This then brings up a specification page. The first thing I'll do is to create a new resource type called test systems. This is like a folder in a file system. It enables me to group my virtual machines however I want. I'll call this server Ubuntu.0. I'll make sure the location is set to US West Coast, which is where I want this platform to be hosted. I can now select my operating system image using the dropdown box and can see a number of Linux and Windows options. We'll stick with the Ubuntu 18.04 server. I'll change the size of the server. The default is more powerful than I need for this course. I'll select the A0 standard and press select. For the administrator account, I'll select password authentication as this is just a demonstration and I'll enter my credentials. This needs to be in older style complex password of at least 12 characters length. We'll leave the inbound addresses and ports at default, which will enable us to use SSH to access the system. Next we'll check disks, and we can see that we have an operating system disk and a temporary disk on the virtual machine. We could add additional disks. However, we'll just take what we have and go to networking. Here we can see we're on a virtual network associated with our virtual machine group, and we can create a public IP address. I'll do that. We'll call the system Cybex-Test and keep the addresses dynamic. Next we'll go to management. We don't need to worry about advanced configuration at this stage so let's now review and create the virtual machine. We pass validation so we can now create the server. Back in the virtual machine page, we can now see that we have a virtual machine resource called Ubuntu.0. If I click on the options at the right, I can see that it's running and I have the ability to connect, start, stop, and delete it. If I click connect, I get the details necessary to connect to the server. In our case, we don't need to use the minus IT file option as we configured access to be password only. We can see the server IP address is 138.91.143.207. Okay, I can now log into my new Ubuntu server and I can do this from a command shell. And we're now in our running system. We can use the LSB release command to check the type of server we're on. And sure enough, it's a Ubuntu bionic system. And we can see the standard Linux folders. Okay, we have a Ubuntu running as a platform's service server.