Week 6 - Cloud and Azure Essentials

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Introduction to Cloud and Azure

Azure CLI and the Portal

Azure Blob Storage

Azure PostgreSQL Databases

Azure Container Apps Jobs

Cost Awareness

History of Cloud Computing

Week 6 Gotchas & Pitfalls

Practice

Week 6 Assignment: Deploy Your Pipeline to Azure

Week 6 Lesson Plan

Week 6 - Cloud and Azure Essentials

Welcome to Week 6! Your containerized app is ready. Now it is time to run it in the cloud. This week covers Azure fundamentals: how to use the Azure CLI, store files in blob storage, connect to managed databases, and deploy your container as a job using Azure Container Apps.

By the end of this week, you will have deployed your container as a job in Azure, stored raw output in blob storage, and written structured data to Azure Postgres.

Learning goals

Understand cloud service types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and how Azure organizes resources
Navigate the Azure portal and use the Azure CLI for resource operations
Upload and retrieve files from Azure Blob Storage using Python
Connect to Azure PostgreSQL databases and run queries from Python
Deploy a container image as an Azure Container Apps Job with environment variables
Run a container job that ingests data, uploads to blob storage, and writes to Postgres
Monitor container job logs and troubleshoot deployment issues
Estimate cloud costs and apply cost-saving habits

Prerequisites

Azure for Students account with active subscription
Azure CLI installed (az login working)
Docker Desktop installed (from Week 5)
Container image pushed to ACR (Week 5 deliverable)

Chapters

Teachers

Lesson plan