Deploy & Manage Compute — MOC
MS Learn path: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources · From traditional VMs to serverless — the full compute spectrum.
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The core idea
Compute is where your workloads run. Pick the right model: VMs (full control, IaaS) vs App Service (PaaS web apps) vs containers/AKS vs Functions (serverless). Administrators spend much time on VMs: sizes, disks, availability, declarative templates, and scaling.
Concepts (linked from here)
Virtual machines
- Azure Virtual Machines
- VM sizes & families
- Managed disks, ephemeral OS disk
- Snapshots & images
- Availability set
- Availability zones / VMSS
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)
- VM extensions & custom script
Infrastructure as Code
- Bicep
- ARM templates
- Azure CLI & PowerShell (compute ops)
Platform as a Service
Containers
Modules in this path
Grounded in MS Learn: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (
az-104-manage-compute-resources) — 5 modules.
- Introduction to Azure virtual machines
- Configure virtual machine availability
- Configure Azure App Service plans
- Configure Azure App Service
- Configure Azure Container Instances
Skills measured
- Create & configure virtual machines
- Manage VM disks, availability & scaling
- Deploy & manage App Service
- Deploy containers (ACI/AKS) & serverless (Functions)