Okay, hello Cloud Gurus. Well,
this month we have got some great new courses for you and a new Release Review
where we play around with AWS DeepComposer.
And we also have new episodes of Future of Tech, our DeepComposer series,
Kubernetes This Month, and more. I'm Sam Kroonenburg,
CEO and cofounder of A Cloud Guru,
and I'm really excited to show what we've all been working on this month.
Now, if you already have a base understanding of AWS CloudFormation and you're
looking to deep dive into all that it has to offer,
our new Mastering AWS CloudFormation course from Dan Van Brunt is for
you.
It's got over four hours of material that's nicely balanced between theory and
hands-on learning. No stone goes unturned,
from detailed tips and tricks to common pitfalls.
You'll come away from this course with a really deep understanding of
CloudFormation templates,
to the extent that the only limiting factor to your templates will be your
imagination. We'll also explore various deployment options,
including stack sets and nested stacks.
We'll dive into macros that allow you to run custom functions against targeted
places or against your whole template.
And we'll explore CLI tools that can help simplify and speed up your workflow.
Throughout the course,
you'll get the chance to learn by doing through hands on-labs,
including creating serverless Slack bots and building a real-time voting app.
To cap it all off,
you'll get to challenge yourself by building an advanced macro and then
implementing it into your own template.
Do you want to get the most out of Microsoft Azure?
Then you're going to need to get up to speed on the Azure Resource Manager or
ARM, the tool that lets you automate the provisioning of your Azure resources.
Using ARM lets you move away from manual deployments,
saving time and improving the quality of all of your cloud infrastructure.
In introduction to Azure Resource Manager,
join Rob Moore to take an introductory look at the main ARM concepts,
such as resource groups, resource providers, role based access control,
the ARM API and the ARM templates.
All those goodies will also guide you through creating,
executing and debugging basic ARM templates through several different options,
including Visual Studio, PowerShell, Azure Cloud Shell,
and Azure Command Line Interface. Now, since this is an intro,
we're not going to be going too deep,
but you'll gain enough knowledge and practical experience to start using basic
templates in your projects. Now, hooray,
the days when you would need an advanced degree to practice machine learning are
gone,
as wide availability of AI and ML tools lead to increasingly wider adoption
expertise in platform services like Azure Machine Learning are going to be in
high demand. Our new cross from Kevin Hu,
Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning Studio,
has been designed to give newcomers an entry point.
We'll introduce you to machine learning terminology.
We'll walk you through the machine learning process and also get you hands on
with the Azure Machine Learning Studio,
where you'll create a simple machine learning model.
After completing this course,
you'll be able to talk about the relevance of machine learning in today's
technological landscape. You'll be able to understand the basic concepts, terms,
and steps of the machine learning process and build a simple machine learning
model in the Azure Machine Learning Studio.
This course is a really good fit for anyone who's interested in machine learning
and all the coolness that comes with it,
but isn't quite sure how to get started. Now,
what can you do with machine learning? Well,
the power of machine learning sits behind every DeepComposer composition,
and it's time to bring it into the spotlight. In episode two of DeepComposer:
Train It Again, Maestro,
Kesha Williams leads an exploration of the machine learning life cycle and
generative AI,
and pulls back the curtain to look at the AWS architecture that makes music
generation possible in DeepComposer. It's really interesting. Now,
speaking of AWS DeepComposer,
Nick Triantafillou gets hands on with DeepComposer in our latest Release Review
episode. In this episode, we're going to experiment with the keyboard - yes,
you'll even get to hear Nick play some tunes - and run through a demo of the
DeepComposer service to see how all of it works before wrapping up with our
pros, cons, and verdict. In our latest episode of Future of Tech,
Lars digs into the future of food. What does food have to do with tech? Well,
we all have to eat,
and our global food system is already straining to feed the world
as the population continues to grow and environmental challenges put even more
pressure on agriculture.
How is cloud technology helping to keep everyone fed?
You're going to have to watch to find out! In our latest Kubernetes This Month,
we get to look at Docker Enterprise 3.1, Linode Kubernetes Engine,
GKE container threat detection,
and updates to the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform.
Our deep dive provides a closer look into Docker Enterprise 3.1,
as well as the partnership now between Docker and Snyk.
We've also got a new installment of GCP This Month. And as always,
you can turn to AWS This Week and Azure This Week to keep up with all the major
developments and releases from the two largest public cloud platforms. Okay,
well that about wraps it up for this month's edition of What's New at A Cloud
Guru. [inaudible] Keep an eye out for even more updates from us next month,
but until then stay safe, keep learning, and keep being.
Awesome Cloud Gurus.