Hands on to Cloud Services

This article provides guidance to learn Cloud Service features and let the student to learn general cloud services with hands on experience which are discussed in SENG 41283 — Distributed and Cloud Computing.

Students are instructed to implement a sample platform adhering the following cloud infrastructure architecture and students are required to provide architecture templates as a form of ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Templates.

Cloud Service Architecture

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Assignment

Objectives

• Students are required to set up a sample environment in azure cloud platform based on the above cloud architecture.
• Students are not required to implement complex application implementations and students are allowed to refer any open source sample code repositories with their setup.
• Evaluating students contribution on cloud infrastructure setup by letting students to learn cloud services with hands on experience.

The above infrastructure architecture focused on general cloud services and students free to use any other cloud service, available in Azure Cloud Services.

General Cloud Services requires to use with the assignment

• Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Azure AD (Active Directory)
• Key Vault
• Front Door
• Web Apps
• Azure Functions
• MySQL
• Azure Cache for Redis
• Azure Storage
• Application Insights
• Firewall (Network Restrictions)

References:

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/overview

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-services/cloud-services-choose-me

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-overview

[4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-whatis

[5] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/general/basic-concepts

[6] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview

[7] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/overview

[8] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/azure-functions/functions-overview

[9] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mysql/overview

[10] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-overview

[11] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview

[12] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-ip-restrictions#:~:text=Service%20endpoints%20enables%20you%20to,allow%20or%20deny%20access%20with.