Azure-links

Chapters

• Links to Azure resources
• Books and Whitepapers
• Azure IaaS Inventory Tools
• Azure IaaS Architecture
• Serverless
• Security
• Devops
• Training
• AI And Cognitive
• IoT
• DataPlatform
• SQL
• Containers
• M365 Links
• Events
• Misc

Links to Azure resources

Day to day useful links

• https://azureinfohub.azurewebsites.net/
• https://azureheatmap.azurewebsites.net/
• https://www.azure-glossary.info/ (Same for AWS - https://www.aws-glossary.info/)
• A visual representation of the Azure Services Try the view!
• Azure Readiness checklist
• https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/tree/master/articles
• Azure Builting Policy change tracker

Azure - Where is my Data?

• https://azuredatacentermap.azurewebsites.net/

Azure Compliance Overview

• https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Overview-of-Azure-c1be3942

Weekly info

• http://azureweekly.info/
• https://buildazure.com/subscribe/

Podcasts

• http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net/
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podcast/
• https://cloudskills.fm/
• https://www.hanselminutes.com/
• https://www.msclouditpropodcast.com/
• http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com/
• https://msft.today/podcast/
• https://dotnetrocks.com/
• https://github.com/DanielLarsenNZ/azure-lunch
• http://www.modernitpodcast.com/
• http://azurehackdc.azurewebsites.net/category/podcast/
• http://runasradio.com/
• http://www.azureflashnews.com/
• http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/

Blogs

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
• http://azurefabric.com/

Videos

• https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday
• https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Tuesdays-With-Corey

Free Resources

• https://twitter.com/Michael_Jonsson/status/996154062000283648

Azure Virtual Datacenter (http://aka.ms/VDC)

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/azure-virtual-datacenter/

To Do - examples and demos

• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2018/08/14/build-a-bot-in-under-3-minutes-in-azure/

• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/franmer/2018/08/17/azure-custom-vision-in-action/

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/

Microsoft Datacenter Migration Program Kit (DCM Kit) DCM Kit is a set of materials in a form of documents, decks and external links to help CSP partners in Hoster DC Migration Program (DCM) with their migration journey

• https://github.com/Microsoft/dcmkit

Both the Global Customer Playbook and the Global Connection Toolkit will continue to be updated with more migration scenarios and design patterns, with the intention of staying aligned with the ever-changing customer needs and the new service landing status of China Azure

• https://globalcustomerplaybook.azurewebsites.net/

Books And Whitepapers

• Build_2019 Book of News

• https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/558/2019/05/FINAL-Book-of-News-Build-2019-5.6.19-2.pdf Embargo pre final one

• Connect_2018 Book of News

• Ignite_2018 Book of News

• FinOps

• Azure_for_Architects

• https://azureinfohub.azurewebsites.net/MediaType?mediaType=Ebook

• https://azureinfohub.azurewebsites.net/MediaType?mediaType=Whitepaper

• Azure Virtual Datacenter

• https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles/1ad643b8-73f7-43f6-b05a-8e160168f9df/Azure-Virtual-Datacenter.pdf

• Resiliency in Azure IaaS

• Effective DevOps

Playbooks

Cloud Operating Model helps organizations with a simplified cloud adoption journey with Microsoft Azure. It contains detailed information to cover an end-to-end cloud adoption journey, starting from assessing cloud readiness, to defining business and technology strategy.

• Cloud adoption using the Microsoft Cloud Operating Model - Full Document

or

• https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles/cloud-operating-model---full-document/FINAL-Cloud%20Operating%20Model.pdf

• https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/campaigns/cloud-practice-playbooks

• https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/mpn-new-playbooks-build-successful-cloud-practice/

Containers and Applications

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/designing-distributed-systems/

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/containerize-your-apps-with-docker-and-kubernetes/

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/build-and-deploy-a-multi-container-application-in-azure-service-fabric/en-us/

• https://www.gartner.com/binaries/content/assets/events/keywords/catalyst/catus8/a_guidance_framework_for_architecting.pdf

Power BI

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/whitepapers

Azure-Iaas-Inventory

• Export_Azure_VM_Details_to_csv

• https://techielass.com/pricing-up-your-environment - Blog on migration and pricing

• Azure VMchooser - helps you to find the best Azure VM-size match

• Azure Price Calculator - Azure Price calculator allows you to calculate all your environment at once without spending hours for searching a price for each particular virtual machine.

• https://azureprice.net/

Azure-IaaS-Architecture

• https://the.agilesql.club/whattheio/calculator - This calculator takes the Azure Disk and Virtual Machine IO throttle limits and puts them into a handy calculator so you can see what sort of performance you could theoretically get by changing the disks, the type of caching or the type of machine

Azure Architecture

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/

Azure ARM Vsualizers

• http://arm.benco.io/
• http://armviz.io/

An Open Source Azure Concept

• https://github.com/azureprofessional/azure-concept

Serverless

• https://www.serverlesslibrary.net/
• http://azurefabric.com/getting-started-with-serverless-in-azure-with-azure-functions/

Security

-Trusted Cloud: Microsoft Azure security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and protected IP

• Azure Security DevOps Kit - collection of scripts, tools, extensions, automations, etc. that caters to the end to end Azure subscription and resource security needs OR

• Official site

• Microsoft Cyber Security Reference Architecture and guide

• Azure_Security_best_practises_and_patterns

• A curated list of awesome Bloodhound resources

• Microsoft’s recommendations for password management

• Microsoft Azure Security and Compliance

CredScan to find exposed credentials -> leverage Key Vault and Managed Service Identity to secure...

• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/11/17/managing-secrets-securely-in-the-cloud/

GPO to DSC

• https://github.com/Microsoft/BaselineManagement

Azure Security Center PoC

• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Identity/How-to-Effectively-Perform-an-Azure-Security-Center-PoC/td-p/516874

Azure Security Center Data Flow

• https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Azure-Security-Center-Data-1c2d42e4

Microsoft Security Risk Detection - Security Risk Detection is Microsoft's unique fuzz testing service for finding security critical bugs in software. Security Risk Detection helps customers quickly adopt practices and technology battle-tested over the last 15 years at Microsoft.

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security-risk-detection

App Locker / Aaron Locker

• https://github.com/Microsoft/AaronLocker
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aaron_margosis/2018/06/26/announcing-application-whitelisting-with-aaronlocker/

Devops

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/azure-friday-getting-started-with-the-secure-devops-kit-for-azure-azsk/

• Azure DevOps Roadmap, shonw as workitems ind actual DevOps Board

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/?nav=min

ARM

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates-cloud-consistency
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2018/05/01/azure-resource-manager/

CloudShell Tips

• https://ridicurious.com/2018/06/27/azure-cloud-shell-on-visual-studio-code/

API Browser

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/?view=Azure

Smart hotel360

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/campaigns/smarthotel360/

Training

• https://microsoft.github.io/PartsUnlimited/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/
• https://microsoft.azure-academy.com/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/learn-azure-in-a-month-of-lunches/ Azure in month of Lunches
• https://techsnips.io
• https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/free-online-courses-prepare-you-new-azure-exams-chong-lee
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-MXgaFhsYU8PkqgKBdnusQ - Azure Academy by Dean Cefola
• https://github.com/gmsantos/azure-data-engineer-exams-prep Preparation resources for exams DP-200 and DP-201
• https://github.com/ddneves/awesome-azure-learning/

This is the top level repository for the Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) project. Each workshop is maintained in its own repository. Issues and activity for each individal workshop should take place in those repos. This repository contains the Wiki, captures the overall process to create and maintain MCW content, and top level issues that are not specific to individual workshops.

• https://github.com/Microsoft/MCW -https://microsoftcloudworkshop.com/

A collection of challenge based hack-a-thons including student guide, proctor guide, lecture presentations, sample/instructional code and templates

• https://github.com/Microsoft/WhatTheHack

Azure Data Platform End2End

• https://github.com/fabragaMS/ADPE2E

Learn more about how easy it is to connect all the pieces and build a whole solution using the Azure serverless platform following step-by-step instructions.

• https://github.com/Azure-Samples/serverless-workshop

• https://www.microsoft.com/handsonlabs

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvMwCFhk08 - a company in a day

• https://www.pluralsight.com/partners/microsoft/azure?aid=7010a000001xDURAA2

• https://azurecitadel.github.io/

• https://cloudsociety.fastlane.live/

Certifications

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/certification-overview.aspx

AI and Cognitive

• AI School

• AI Lab Example Gen Studio openSourced

• https://gallery.azure.ai

• https://notebooks.azure.com/

• https://aka.ms/tdsp

• https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning-samples

• Periodic_Table_of_Cognitive_Services

• https://tinyurl.com/learnai-landscape

• http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ignite-ai-announcements.html

• https://buckwoody.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/syllabuck-ignite-2018-conference/

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/release-models-at-pace-using-microsoft-s-automl/

• https://azure.github.io/LearnAI-Bootcamp/

• https://tinyurl.com/LearnAI-DSVM

Some AI Tips

• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2018/09/19/some-recommendations-for-budding-machine-learning-engineers/

Congnitive Search

• https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-knowledge-mining

IoT

• IoT School
• Azure Certified IoT devices

DataPlatform

Azure Data Lake

• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredatalake/

DataBricks

• https://github.com/caiomsouza/microsoft-azure-databricks-playground
• https://www.modern-dataengineering.com/blog/azure-databricks-architecture-on-data-lake

CosmosDB

• Setup and Get Started

Labs

• https://cosmosdb.github.io/labs/

• https://www.gotcosmos.com/

• http://code.benco.io/serverless-cosmos-lab/

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-provision-database-throughput

SQL

• Ola Hallengren - Maintainance
• Brent Ozar -First Aid kit packed with scripts, worksheets, and checklists
• SQL Stress Test
• SQLio and guide *diskspd and guide

Containers

Want to learn #Kubernetes but don't know where to start? Check out our Kubernetes learning path. Don't be put off by the "50 days" part - day 1 only takes 6 minutes so there's plenty of opportunity for keeners to finish faster.

• https://t.co/FDTX8lsDOx

M365 links

• https://aka.ms/mfasetup - Link for changing/updating the Authentication for MFA

• Periodic Table of O365

• Lab Guide - Step by step list for a M365 lab

• O365_Implementation_and_Adoption

• O365 DSC - This module allows organizations to automate the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of Office 365 Tenants via PowerShell Desired State Configuration

Events

• Events - In person, online, on-demand events/

Misc

Azure Slack Channels

AzureFabric Slack Channel

• https://join.slack.com/t/azurefabric/shared_invite/enQtNzQzMTY4MDk0ODE2LTU4NzZiY2EyNWYyZmE2MjNlNDQxMTJkYmMxMzc2MDQwMGE3NjZmNWIwNDY1OWEzODI1YWRkNGMyNmIwYjdlM2M

Other tips on Azure slack channels

• https://thomasthornton.cloud/2019/01/14/azure-slack-channels/

Micrsofot Partner resources

• https://partner.microsoft.com/en-cy/asset#/

• https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/

• Microsoft Azure Datacenter Virtual Tour

ICONS

• http://azurefabric.com/azure-and-other-clouds-icon-hunt/ : Blog about the Icons

Azure

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazing-icon-downloader/kllljifcjfleikiipbkdcgllbllahaob/ - Amazing Icon downloader
• https://github.com/David-Summers/Azure-Design
• https://github.com/sandroasp/Microsoft-Integration-and-Azure-Stencils-Pack-for-Visio
• https://github.com/azurekid/Azure-Stencils
• https://code.benco.io/icon-collection/
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41937

AWS https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/

GCP https://cloud.google.com/icons/

• MSFT-Hex-Stickers
• Top 50 Azure Blogs

Compare the Clouds

• http://comparecloud.in/

Open source project metrics (from github)

• https://octoverse.github.com/

Other great links

• https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
• https://github.com/donnemartin/awesome-aws