Ed-Fi 271 - Large Scale Deployments with Azure

Course Information

• Course Title: Large Scale Deployments with Azure
• Course Code: Ed-Fi 271
• Tracks:
  • SEAs
  • Collaboratives
• Series: Advanced Ed-Fi Topics (200 Series)
• Course Prerequisites: 
  • Ed-Fi 101 - Welcome to Ed-Fi
  • Ed-Fi 102 - The Ed-Fi Technology Suite
  • Working knowledge in an Azure environment
  • General knowledge of Ed-Fi standard and technology
• Learning Delivery Mode: Self-Guided Course (Online)
• Time to Complete: TBD minutes
• Registration Options: Online

Course Overview

Description

Walk through large-scale Ed-Fi deployment models with Azure seen in the field. We will offer pros and cons but we will not recommend one over another.

Who Should Enroll

• State/Collaborative Development Team and DevOps team

Course Outcome

By the end of this course, Academy students will: 

• be able to select a combination of environments and deployment models what will best suit for their state needs.
• identify resource and staffing needs for their Ed-Fi Azure deployment.
• be able to analyze other state Ed-Fi Azure deployments and identify appropriate steps/needs for their deployment.

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this course are: 

• Environments recommended by our team
• (Required) Production Environment
• Staging 
• Sandbox 
• Development (Only for customizations)
• The Ed-Fi ODS / API components per environment
• Ed-Fi ODS / API
• Admin App vs Sandbox Admin
• SwaggerUI – Documentation (not in Production – Security Concerns)
• CICD pipeline options
• Traditional Team City + Octopus
• Cloud: Azure Devops Pipelines, Github Actions
• Hosting infrastructure options and combinations
• VMs (Not managed)
• Azure AppServices
• Containers ACI – Azure Container Instances
• Azure Managed SQL (MsSQL or PostgreSql)
• Pro's and Con's of combinations previously mentioned,

Course Modules

• TBD