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I’ll tell you about my new virtual training course on Azure Firewall and share some schedule information in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been talking about Azure Firewall for years. I’ve done lots of sessions at user groups and conferences. I’ve done countless handovers with customers and colleagues. One of my talking points is that I reckoned that I could teach someone with a little Azure\/networking knowledge everything there is to know about Azure Firewall in 2 days. And that’s what I decided to do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was updating one of my sessions earlier in the year when I realised that it was pretty must the structure of a training couse. Instead of me just listing out features or barely dicusssing architecture to squeeze it into a 45-60 minute-long session, I could take the time to dive deep and share all that I know or could research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I produced a 2-day course that could<\/em> be taught in-person, but my primary vector is virtual\/online – it’s hard to get a bunch of people from all over into one place and there is also a cost to me in hosting a physical event that would increse the cost of the course. I decided that virtual was best, with an option off doing it in person if a suitable opportunity arose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course content is delivered using a combination of presentation and demo. Presentation lets me explain the what’s, why’s and so on. Demonstration lets me show you how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demo lab is built from a Bicep deployment, based on Azure Verified Modules (AVM). A hub & spoke network architecture is created with an Application Gateway, a simple VM workload, and a simple App Services (Private Endpoint) workload. The demonstrations follow a “hands-on guide”; this guide is written as if this was a step-by-step hands-on course, instructing the reader exactly which button to click and what\/where to type. Each exercise builds on the last, eventually resulting in a secure network architecture with all of the security, monitoring, and management bells and whistles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did I opt for demo instead of hands-on? Hands-on works for in-person classes. But you cannot assist in the same way when people struggle. In addition, waiting for attendees to complete labs would add another day (and cost) to the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before and class, I share all of the content that I use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n