Hi there, welcome to Configuring Azure VNet integration here at Cloud Academy.

My name is Brian Harrison and I'm a Cloud Solution Architect.

Let's start by doing a quick introduction of both myself as well as the course content before we dive into the deeper networking topics that we're going to be covering.

As I mentioned, my name is Brian Harrison and I am a Public Cloud Solution Architect. I've been working for more than a decade with both Microsoft and Amazon in numerous different capacities focusing on both Infrastructure as a Service as well as Application Development.

Here are a couple of links that you can use to get in contact with me should you choose to:

Here's also an email address that you can use if you would like to contact Cloud Academy directly and provide you some feedback, or you think some information should be changed: support@cloudacademy.com

Who exactly should attend this course? It's going to be primarily Azure network engineers, but they can fall into two different categories.

The first are going to be those that work with solution architects, cloud administrators, security engineers, and application developers to deliver Azure Solutions. Those that are more operationally focused.

The second are those that are going to be recommending planning, implementing, and maintaining Azure Network Solutions, maintaining network architectures, primarily those that are going to design and develop networking solutions.

From an objective perspective and also think of this as our agenda, we have three primary topics that we're going to be covering.

App Service and how to configure them for regional VNet integration
Azure Kubernetes service and how it can be configured for VNet integration as well as the different networking models that are supported within
App Service environments, which is a different version of App Services, specifically an isolated version and how you can configure it so that your clients can access those App Services

From a prerequisites perspective, there are definitely going to be certain skills that you'll need to have in place before taking this course:

Expert Azure administration skills. You need to understand the Azure portal the Azure object model and so on
Extensive experience and knowledge of networking, hybrid connections, network security as these are all going to be covered
Subject matter expertise in planning, implementing, and maintaining Azure Network Solutions including routing and private access.

Again, should you have any feedback for Cloud Academy, here is the email address that I showed a little while ago and this is where you can provide both positive and negative feedback about this particular course.

One thing to keep in mind, at the time that I put this course together, I did do a number of demonstrations related to how to do specific configurations. Those demonstrations were using the Azure portal. However, Microsoft is known to make changes to the Azure portal very, very rapidly, so there could be screen changes from the screen grabs that I took versus what you may see live in the Azure portal today. Just be aware of that.

Let's go ahead and start talking about Azure App Services and how you would configure them for regional VNet integration.