Azure Wizardry with Magnus Mårtensson

The Developer User Group is partnering with Magnus Mårtensson from Sweden to bring you an exclusive opportunity to learn the secrets and shortcuts to the Azure Cloud Platform, through a two-day workshop. Magnus Mårtensson, of Loftysoft, is an Azure Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2000 and was MVP of the year 2012. He is recognized as Microsoft Regional Director (RD). His workshop Azure Wizardry, which has been run several times around the world, is a two-day course on essential Azure skills. The workshop is a hands on approach to mastering the powerful Azure Platform, and includes a set of scripts and skills to take back to your work or business right away. Anyone who develops, deploys, distributes and diagnoses applications on the Azure Platform should attend this course!

About the Workshop

Four Key Powers in Azure will make You an Azure Wizard! Granted these powers there is nothing you won't be able to build in Azure! It will be much easier. You will be much quicker. You will feel much more comfortable and secure.

• Automation – Control deployments, environments and easily drive down consumption.
• Governance – Empower your business and tell your boss what it costs.
• Monitoring – Know what might be wrong and how to quickly improve.
• Access Control – Prevent human error, malicious attacks and stay secure.

You are at the Cloud cross roads and want to be effective using Azure! You want to grab this opportunity, have a good direction and speed of ascent. When going to the Cloud, many things remain the same. Other key things are new and have changed quite a bit. You hesitate. You feel uncertain and unfamiliar, or you are frustrated and confused. Many have been where you are. Some have taken this course.

“I wish someone had told me the secrets of Azure before we started two years ago! This course is spot on things we now apply successfully every day in our Azure solutions. We are more goal oriented when using the Cloud. Ultimately this saves us money and makes working with Cloud more tangible and much more fun.” – Brian Jensen, workshop attendee, Denmark

What you will learn

Simply put, the secrets and shortcuts to the Azure Cloud Platform! The course helps you handle some of the most important blockers in Cloud Computing: How do I deploy to and handle my new environments in the Cloud in a predictable and automatable way? How do I avoid runaway costs in the Cloud when developers can create anything they want? How do I set up to divide the bill between departments and environments? How do we stay compliant and restrict to appropriate locations and services? How do I handle access to Cloud resources in an effective way? How do I monitor resources when they are running – is the site up and is it successful? And “who’s database is this”, because it is costing us money? Avoid confusion and hesitation! Measure effectiveness, speed and success! This course is Your booster pack!

“Regardless if you are new to the Cloud, or if you have been in there for years most companies, developers and ITPro generally do not know the important fundamentals of the Cloud needed to have flow, be fast and focus on their business!” – Magnus Mårtensson, Presenter

You will take command of using the powerful Azure Platform and bring your business to new heights with your new powers and you will work with confidence in Azure:

• Azure positioning in the Cloud era.
• Tooling, Scripting and Infrastructure as Code with Azure Resource Management.
• Handle your environments in the Cloud with Template Parameters, Variables and Functions.
• Hands on Authoring Templates and other exercises.
• Manage the shape of the Cloud with Policies and Tagging.
• Monitor and manage access with Activity log and Role Based Access Control.
• Set up to track diagnostics, metrics and alerting using Azure Monitor.

The course is hands on and you receive a set of scripts and skills to use them on your own services as soon as you get back to the office! Anyone who develop, deploy, distribute and diagnose applications on the Azure Platform should attend this course!

About Magnus

Magnus is the CEO of Loftysoft, a Cloud consultancy from Sweden. He works with global companies, banks and more to architect, build and maintain optimal solutions for the Cloud. He was the first to receive Azure MVP status in the Nordic countries and is also recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director. Magnus is a global speaker with over 15 years of international speaking experience. He passionately delivers sessions and training all around the world. Recently this course has shipped to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Australia. Magnus is a featured speaker on the first speaker page at Microsoft Ignite 2018. He is an avid community supporter and visits schools for young learners wherever he gets a chance, for instance in India and Nepal. He is one of the initiators of the Global Azure Bootcamp – a massive annual Azure community day with over 15 000 attending around the world. You can safely say that Magnus is as passionate about learning and sharing knowledge as one can possibly be!