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Lab 1: Getting Started with Azure
a. Activate your Azure account with your Microsoft Imagine Student Pass
Estimation time for this Section A & B : 45 minutes
Follow the below steps to activate your Azure subscription.
1. Go to your APU webspace and access to your Microsoft Imagine Account.
2. Once you login to the Microsoft Imagine Account, you will be direct to the below page and choose the “NEW Microsoft Azure for Students” button.
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3. Then, you will reach the below page. The page will stated that the product is Free for you. Thus, click on the “Add to Cart” button. Continue the pr
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4. Continue the purchase processes until you reach the below page. When you reach this page, it means that you have successfully purchase the Free “NEW Microsoft Azure for Students”.
5. Then, click on the “Click here to access Microsoft Azure for Students” link to further your Azure subscription.
6. Now, you will reach to the below page. Click on the “Activate Now” button and fill in the form. Choose the “School email address” option to verify you are still a student and fill in your student TP email address. Lastly, click the “Verify and claim your offer” button.
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7. An email will be delivered to your school email account. Then follow the steps inside the email to finish all the subscription steps.
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8. At the final stage, you will see your student azure subscription pass is in your Cost Management + Billing – Subscription section. The subscription page view as below:
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b. IntroductiontoAzureportals
1.
Azure Portal Layout
Azure Portal is the primary graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling Microsoft Azure. You can carry out the majority of management actions in the portal, and it is typically the best interface for carrying out single tasks or where you want to look at the configuration options in detail.
Resource Panel
In the left-hand sidebar of the portal is the resource pane, which lists the main resource types. Note that Azure has more resource types than
just those shown. The resources listed are part of your
favorites.
You can customize this with the specific resource types you tend to create or administer most often.
You can also collapse this pane; with the << caret. This will minimize it to just icons which can be convenient if you are working with limited screen real-estate.The remainder of the portal view is for the specific elements you are working with.The default (main) page is the dashboard. We’ll cover this a bit later, but this represents a customizable birds-eye-view of your resources.You can use it to jump into specific resources you want tomanage, or search for resources with the “All resources” entry in the resource panel. When you are managing a resource, such as a virtual machine or a web app, you will work with a blade that presents specific information about the resource. 2.Level 3Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation Page 6 of 21Design and Developing Application in Cloud (CT071-3-5-3-DDAC) Getting Started with Azure 3. Blade4.The Azure portal uses a blades model for navigation. A blade is a slide-out panel containing the UI for a single level in a navigation sequence. For example, each of these elements in this sequence would be represented by a blade:Virtual machines > Compute > Ubuntu Server.
Each blade contains some information and configurable options. Some of these options generate another blade, which reveals itself to the right of any existing blade. On the new blade, any further configurable options will spawn another blade, and so on. Pretty soon, you can end up with several blades open at the same time. You can maximize blades as well so that they fill the entire screen.
Configuring settings in the Azure portal
The Azure portal displays several configuration options, mostly in the status bar at the top-right of the screen.
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Notifications
Cloud Shell
Clicking the bell icon displays the Notifications pane. This pane lists the last actions that have been carried out, along with their status.
If you click the Cloud Shell icon (>_), you will create a new Azure Cloud Shell session.
Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Linux users can opt for a Bash experience, while Windows users can opt for PowerShell. This browser-based terminal lets you control and administer all of your Azure resources in the current subscription through a command-line interface built right into the portal.
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iii. Settings
Click the gear icon to change the Azure portal settings. These settings include:
Logout time
Color and contrast themes
Toast notifications (to a mobile device) Language and regional format
When you have changed settings, click Apply to accept
your changes.
iv. Feedback blade
The smiley face icon opens the Send us feedback blade. Here you can send feedback to Microsoft about Azure. Note that you can specify whether Microsoft can respond to your feedback by email.
v. Help blade
Click the question mark icon to show
the Help blade. Here you choose from several options, including:
What’s new
Azure roadmap
Launch guided tour
Keyboard shortcuts
Show diagnostics
Privacy + terms
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vi.
Directory and subscription
Click the Book and Filter icon to show the Directory + subscription blade.
Azure allows you to have more than one subscription associated with one directory.
On the Directory + subscription blade, you can change between subscriptions. Here, you can change your subscription
or change to another directory.
vii.
Profile settings
If you click on your name in the top right-hand corner, a menu opens with a few options:
Sign in with another account, or sign out entirely
View your account profile, where you can change your password
Check your permissions
Submit an idea
View your bill (click the “…” button on the
right-hand side)
Update your contact information (click the
“…” button on the right-hand side)
If you click “…” and then View my bill, Azure takes you to the Cost Management + Billing – Invoices page, which helps you analyze where Azure is generating costs.
Azure is a large product, and the Azure portal user interface (UI) reflects this. The sliding blade approach allows you to navigate back and forth through the various administration tasks with ease.
Let’s experiment a bit with this UI so you get some practice.
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c.
Hands-on Exercise Section – Explore the Azure Portal
Estimation time for this Section C : 60 minutes
This unit requires a sandbox to complete
The sandbox will give you free access to the Azure resources needed to complete this unit. Your Azure subscription will not be charged.
Sign in to activate sandbox
In this unit, you will learn how to work with blades in the Azure portal user interface (UI). You can either use your own account (if you have one, or created one), or use the free Azure sandbox.
If you have an account (or created one), then Sign into the Azure portal using your account credentials
Otherwise, activate the Azure sandbox above and sign into the Azure portal for sandbox using the same account you activated the sandbox with.
Task 1: Customize the Dashboard (10 minutes)
1. After the dashboard is fully loaded, right-click the Dashboard (home screen), and then click Edit.
2. In the Tile Gallery, drag the Service Health tile onto your dashboard.
3. At the top of the tile, click the button with three ellipses “…”.
4. Select the 2×4 size option.
5. In the Tile Gallery, drag the Markdown tile onto your dashboard.
6. In the Content section of the Edit Markdown dialog that appears, update the content with the following markup:
7. Click the Done button.
8. Right-click the Dashboard (home screen), and then click Done customizing.
9. You can reset any dashboard to the default style. To reset the dashboard, in the edit mode, right-click and select Reset to default state. A dialog box will ask you to confirm that you want to reset that dashboard.
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10. You can also switch the Dashboard to Full Screen.
a) Click the Full Screen button.
Note that the browser menus and bars have all disappeared.
b) Click the Exit Full Screen to return to the standard screen.
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Task 2: Working with blades (5 minutes)
Once you are logged into the Azure portal, we can start exploring things.
1. Let’s start by touring how to create a resource. In the left-hand pane, click Create a resource.
2. The New blade displays a list of categories of items to create on the left-hand side, with theGet started option selected. This is
like the “Favorites” menu, with some of the most common options visible.
3. Under Get started, you have the option to create resources such as a Windows Server 2016 VM, an Ubuntu Server VM, a web app, a SQL database, and so on. Each of these items includes a quickstart tutorial.
4. Click Quickstart tutorial under Windows Server 2016 VM. This lists the Windows VM tutorials. Close this new tab to return to the Azure portal.
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Task 3: Viewing resources (5 minutes)
1. Under Azure Marketplace, click Compute to show more compute options, such as :
Red Hat Enterprise, Reserved VM instances, Web app for Containers, and so on.
This list is a subset of the entire range of
computing resources available.
2. To the right of Featured, click See all to see the full range of available resources. The full list of VMs now appears.
3. Under Recommended, click Windows Server. The Windows Server blade appears.
4. To the right of the Pin icon, click the Maximize icon. The Windows Server blade now fills the screen, except for the left-hand pane. Scroll down the list to see the other Windows Server images available.
5. Click the X at the top right-hand corner to close the Windows Server blade.
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Task 4: Filtering results (5 minutes)
1. To refine this list further, on the Compute blade, click Filter. The Filter blade now appears.
2. Select the filter option for Virtual Machine Images, and then click Done.
3. Click the X in the top right-hand corner of the Filter blade.
4. On the Compute blade, look down the list of available VM images and then, at the bottom, click Load More.
5. Continue to click Load More a few times to appreciate just how many types of VMs Azure provides.
6. Click the X at the top right-hand corner to close the Compute blade.
7. Click the X at the top right-hand corner to close the Marketplace blade.
8. Click the X at the top right-hand corner to close the New blade.
9. The default dashboard now appears.
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Task 5: Services blade (5 minutes)
The Azure Portal has a lot of features and services available; let’s look at some of the more common areas you’ll tend to use.
1. In the left-hand pane, click All services. Take a couple of minutes to scroll down the list to see how many services Azure offers.
2. Click Virtual machines. The Virtual Machines blade appears. There is nothing currently showing because you have not defined any virtual machines.
3. Click the + Add button. The Create a virtual machine blade appears, as in the previous exercise.
4. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Create a virtual machine blade.
5. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Virtual machines blade. You should now be back at the dashboard page.
Task 6: Notifications blade (5 minutes)
1. On the top menu on the right side, click the bell icon. You can now see any notifications.
2. If any notifications appear, on one of them, hover your mouse, and then Click the X to dismiss that notification.
3. To the right of Dismiss, click All. You should have no notifications showing.
4. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Notifications pane.
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Task 7: Azure Cloud Shell (15 minutes)
1. Click the Cloud Shell icon (>_) to create a Cloud Shell session.
2. Click Bash (Linux) or PowerShell (Linux), depending on your personal preferences.
You can select the Bash option.
3. In the You have no storage mounted screen, click Create storage. The Cloud Shell window appears at the bottom of the screen.
4. Wait for the Cloud Shell to finish its first-time setup procedures before moving on with this task.
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5. Test in Cloud Shell
6.
In the Cloud Shell command prompt at the bottom of the portal,
a) Type in the following command and press Enter to view a list of possible CLI commands:
az –help
b) Type in the following command and press Enter to view a list of possible CLI commands for Resource Groups:
az group –help
c) Type in the following command and press Enter to view a list of possible CLI commands to create a Resource Group:
az group create –help
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d) Type in the following command and press Enter to view a list of possible CLI commands to list Resource Groups:
az group list –help
7. Click the language drop-down on the left of the bar, and change the scripting language from PowerShell to Bash or from Bash to PowerShell, depending on which option you selected.
8. Click Restart when prompted. The screen displays Restarting your Cloud Shell.
9. In the restarted shell, type az help and press Enter.
10. In the Cloud Shell window, click the Settings (cog) icon. Note that you can change the text size and the font.
11. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Cloud Shell pane.
After completing this Task 7, you will have used the Azure Cloud Shell to interactively invoke commands using the Azure CLI.
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Task 8: Profile settings (5 minutes)
1. Click on your name in the top right-hand corner of the portal. Options include:
Sign in with another account, or sign out entirely
View your account profile, where you can change your password
Check your permissions
View your bill (click the “…” button on the right-hand side)
Update your contact information (click the “…” button on the right-hand side)
2. Click “…” then View my bill to navigate to the Cost Management + Billing – Invoices page, which helps you analyze where Azure is generating costs.
3. Under Subscriptions, select your subscription.
4. Click a billing period.
Note the service costs. These should be minimal with your current subscription.
5. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Azure for Students blade.
6. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Cost Management + Billing – Invoices page.
7. You should now be back at the dashboard.
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Task 9: Help blade (5 minutes)
1. Click the question mark to show the Help blade.
2. Click the Help and Support button.
3. In the Help + Support blade, under Support, click New support request.
4. In the Basics blade, under Issue type, select Technical.
5. Under Subscription, click your subscription name.
6. Under Service, select Virtual Machine running Windows.
7. Because you do not have a paid support plan, there are limited support options. Under Upgrade your support plan, click Choose a plan.
8. In the Support Plans blade, there are four available plans –
Basic, Developer, Standard, and Professional Direct. Compare the options offered by each plan.
9. Click the X at the top right to close the Support Plans blade.
10. Close the Support options blade.
11. Close the Basics blade.
12. Close the New support request blade.
13. Close the Help and Support blade.
14. Click the Help icon again.
15. Click What’s new to see what features have recently been released. Also note the
other help options:
Azure roadmap
Launch guided tour
Keyboard shortcuts
Show diagnostics
Privacy + terms
11. Click the X in the top right-hand corner to close the Help blade.
12. Close the What’s new blade. You should now be back to the dashboard.
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Summary
We have covered a lot of ground in this module.
You have seen some of the core products in Azure across the main service pillars.
You have learned how to create a free account for Microsoft Azure and how to sign in
using that account.
You reviewed the features of the Azure portal and its customization options.
You created, customized, and shared a dashboard.
However, this is just the beginning. Azure has so much to offer you, no matter what role you plan in your organization. If you are a developer, Azure provides an easy way to test new platforms and build sophisticated apps. If you are an administrator, you will use the Azure portal, Azure CLI, or Azure PowerShell tools to administer your cloud-based infrastructure. If you are an architect, you can use Azure to test out new architecture ideas quickly.
Keep exploring Azure by selecting one or more paths through the content that’s structured specifically for what you want to learn.
Check your knowledge:
1. Which of the following is an example of an Azure compute service?
A. Azure Virtual Machine
B. Azure Load Balancer
C. Azure Table Storage
D. Azure Redis Cache
2. True or false: Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources?
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