Yesterday I had the honor to present a Microsoft Learn Live session along with Steven Murawski on LearnTV. The session “Automate your Cloud with Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Learn” is now available on Channel9.

The session

Discover the best practices of cloud resource management with Principal Cloud Advocate Steven Murawski and Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Foteini Savvidou. Automating your cloud resource management can increase productivity, sustainability, and the scalability of your services. In this session Steven Murawski and Foteini Savvidou will explain the concept of Infrastructure-as-Code and discuss the advantages that it offers over ordinary scripting. They will then go on to show how to automate cloud resource management with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform. They will explore Terraform’s role as an infrastructure orchestrator and describe how it differs from conventional configuration management practices.

Together, you will walk through the free Microsoft Learn module Automate cloud resource management.

Self-paced learning from Microsoft Learn

In this Learn Live session, we will explore the Microsoft Learn module Automate cloud resource management that produced in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University.

In this module you will:

• Learn about how to automate cloud resource management with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Explain the concept of Infrastructure-as-Code and enumerate the advantages that it offers over ordinary scripting.
• List some of the tools that implement Infrastructure-as-Code for popular cloud platforms and describe some of the differences between them.
• Understand Terraform’s role as an infrastructure orchestrator and describe how it differs from a conventional configuration manager.

Sketch note

The following sketch note covers the basics of cloud automation in Microsoft Azure.