Up and Running with Azure (2013)

Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables developers to quickly build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. If you have been wondering how you can take advantage of "the cloud" and integrate it into your existing IT environment, this course is for you. David Isbitski covers everything from the basics of signing up for a free Azure account to using the free developer tools, and covers each of the six major offerings from Azure: virtual machines; website development; Mobile Services for authenticating users and storing data; the Cloud Services API development and deployment tools; Data Services, which incorporates SQL, Table, and Blob storage; and app services like Service Bus for messaging. At the end, you'll tie it all together in a 5-node cloud service that processes operations through Web and Workers roles, communicates through a Service Bus message queue, and saves data to the cloud.

Introduction 2m 41s
Welcome 1m 12s
What you need to know 51s
Using the exercise files 38s

1. Getting Started 15m 49s
Setting up the Visual Studio and Azure SDK development tools 3m 20s
Setting up a local cloud test environment 3m 55s
Signing up for an Azure account 1m 37s
Overview of the new Azure Portal 3m 19s
Introducing the Azure Store 3m 38s

2. Introduction to Windows Azure 8m 19s
What is cloud computing? 3m 4s
What is Windows Azure? 5m 15s

3. Compute: Virtual Machines 17m 12s
Overview of virtual machines 2m 6s
Creating a Windows Azure virtual machine 10m 44s
Adding storage to your virtual machine 4m 22s

4. Compute: Azure Web Sites 13m 43s
Overview of Azure Web Sites 2m 11s
Creating and deploying an Azure website 6m 42s
Monitoring and scaling your Azure website 4m 50s

5. Compute: Mobile Services 15m 45s
Overview of Azure Mobile Services 2m 43s
Creating a new mobile service 8m 5s
Logging and scaling your mobile service 4m 57s

6. Compute: Cloud Services 22m 17s
Overview of Cloud Services 1m 25s
Creating a cloud service with a web role 9m 14s
Adding a worker role to our cloud service 2m 51s
Deploying and managing a cloud service 8m 47s

7. Data Services 13m 14s
Overview of Data Services 1m 56s
Creating a new SQL database 2m 35s
Managing our SQL database 3m 4s
Working with Table and Blob Storage 5m 39s

8. App Services 30m 53s
Overview of App Services 3m 9s
Adding a Service Bus queue to our cloud service 5m 47s
Writing to the queue with a web role 7m 12s
Reading from the queue with a worker role 4m 9s
Saving queue messages to Table Storage 10m 36s

Conclusion 1m 43s
Next steps 1m 43s