The Tech Lab by Aisha Ikram

In order to understand anything for need to communicate or understand the language in which a system or problem is described. Cloud Computing have its own have language or technicalities which are very important to understand in order to understand the potential or the Cloud services. This cloud concept glossary with key terms and description is addressed briefly and concisely under the Series of Cloud Basics and Fundamentals . Microsoft have created an exam with Exam ref Az-900 for the basics of cloud for those people who are using or interacting with cloud in their roles, they could be administrators, clients or users. This Series have following with a great effort to summarise the points in the relevant cloud topics and if you are a beginner in Cloud Computing, you can quickly go through them without wasting much time on long articles and Microsoft documentation . However for deeper dive I found the best resource is Microsoft Docs. Some of the concepts have been re-phrased from the...

When I first started learning about cloud the concept of tenancy, and directories was very confusing as I could have multiple tenants and each tenant could have multiple directories and subscriptions etc. As this was the basics of every resource access, creation, assignment , the concept is very important to understand.  I will try to make it as simple as I can. For more information about these interlinked concepts, I will re-direct you to the pertinent topic and it will make it easy to understand.  👉 I would highly recommend to complete your study of Cloud Basics and Fundamental Series to understand the important key terms and concepts of cloud. Tenant Every organization when registers/buy the Azure portal subscription from Microsoft, for them a record is created in the Microsoft Active Directory along with their information. This record of Active directory is called Tenant. 

Virtual Machines are one of the Azure Compute way to host your solution and is the base Infrastructure component of the Cloud. Virtual Machines are logical machines which are created by the cloud using Hypervisors but for end user they act like physical machines containing all the components like RAM, CPU, Storage and Network. The physical hardware resources of the datacentre are intelligently managed and allocated to the virtual machines and these virtual machines are being paid for according to their location, performance and storage parameters. Hypervisor is a technology which manages these virtual machine allocations. One physical machine share its resource to multiple VMs. VMs have their own Operating system which is selected at the time of the creation of the VM.  Lab : For more information about what features/options Cloud offers for a VM, lets look into the Azure Portal .  you can also create a VM using Azure CLI, CLI, PowerShell and ARM Templates. I will create  ...

Logic Apps are one of the compute solutions offered by Microsoft Azure. Logic Apps are design first workflows hosted in Azure in a serverless mode and implemented through underlying Azure Service Fabric. They have a visual design to connect your applications, components, services and APIs together in a workflow which is triggered by some event. As Logic Apps are executed in a serverless mode, so you are charged for the consumption plan price which is pay per execution. Logic Apps are used to integrate systems hence they are also called integration service. Components of Logic App Logic Apps require following: Trigger (Only One)  of any supported types (HTTP or other triggers (check list of supported triggers on Microsoft website) to trigger the execution Conditions/loops  (outcome from triggers is checked against a condition or put in a loop) based on which different Actions are executed Actions   are t...

Microsoft Azure is the second largest cloud technology to provide you various services.  In  order to understand the cloud, you need to understand the cloud basics or glossary. Here is the brief introduction and the major terminologies used in cloud Cloud Service Model Cloud systems offer three service models for your solution: ·          IAAS – Infrastructure As A Service -Infrastructure Provisioning/providing ·       PAAS – Platform As A Service - Dev/Deployment Environment provider ·       SAAS – Software As A Service- Web based Application provider    Cloud Deployment Model ·         Public ·         Hybrid ·         Private Cloud Architecture Terminologies  While dealing with Cloud offerings you will come across with these terminologies quite frequently, lets see what...