Automation plays a key role in corporate agility and DevOps culture. This lab illustrates how to automate the creation of resources in Azure, and the configuration of a Windows Server 2019 VM with the goal of setting up an Azure File Sync group—a practical and non-trivial task. You will create an Azure File Sync Group with a single server in it. The beauty of automation is that you could apply the same procedure to as many servers as you like for your own environments. The PowerShell scripts you develop in this lab could easily be used within PowerShell DSC for large-scale deployments involving dozens or more servers.
Upon completion of this Lab, you will be able to:
You should be familiar with:
The following Cloud Academy content can be used to meet the Lab's prerequisites:
June 5th, 2023 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail to setup on rare occasions
December 21st, 2022 - Updated lab to use Cloud Academy's Hosted IDE, the Azure Az PowerShell module, and Windows Server 2019
May 22nd, 2020 - Updated a validation check to more accurately reflect whether students have met the conditions of the lab
May 5th, 2020 - Added a validation check function to check the work done in the lab
Nov. 17th, 2019 - Changed lab region to South Central US to avoid an issue that prevented completion of the lab in West US
Logan has been involved in software development and research since 2007 and has been in the cloud since 2012. He is an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA). He earned his Ph.D. studying design automation and enjoys all things tech.