Get hands-on experience with OSS cloud technologies from Microsoft OSS Hands-on Lab Night School provided by Microsoft. Practice with the latest OSS cloud products and services in a live environment and advance your cloud skills for free. While the onsite teachers and the self-paced labs will provide the instruction on topics ranging from managing applications to troubleshooting and monitoring.
You will have the opportunity to select any 1 or both 2 sessions of Microsoft OSS Hands-on Lab during the day 1 night of LinuxCon:
1. Build Container Service on Microsoft Azure
2. Deep Learning by Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) on Azure with Linux
Azure Container Service makes it simpler for you to create, configure, and manage a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications. It uses an optimized configuration of popular open-source scheduling and orchestration tools. This enables you to use your existing skills, or draw upon a large and growing body of community expertise, to deploy and manage container-based applications on Microsoft Azure. By using Azure Container Service, you can take advantage of the enterprise-grade features of Azure, while still maintaining application portability–including portability at the orchestration layers.
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites on Azure; Comfort with the Linux command line; Basic knowledge of Docker or Kubernetes.
Objectives:
You will learn:
What is Azure Container Service
Deploy cluster with Azure CLI
Connect with an ACS cluster
Container management with Kubernetes UI
Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) is a free, easy-to-use, open-source, commercial-grade toolkit that trains the deep learning algorithms to learn like the human brain same as TensorFlow. In this lab, you will learn how to provision Cognitive Toolkit service on Azure Linux Virtual Machine; how to train with CNTK on Azure with Linux.
Difficulty Level: Medium
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites on Azure or Cognitive Toolkit;
Comfort with the Linux command line;
Basic knowledge of deep learning;
Objectives:
You will learn:
What is Cognitive Toolkit
Fundamental Cognitive Toolkit concepts and components
The process of training Cognitive Toolkit
Interactive with Cognitive Toolkit by Python
