In summary, what have we learned in this module?
Well, I've found in my 20‑something years of experience as an IT
professional that many trends in IT do fizzle out, but
microservices containers are here to stay.
You know, some things are just going to be here and it's a question
of adapt or don't, but if you don't adapt, you may be hobbling your
career or shortening it unnecessarily.
Number two,
I want to strongly encourage you to experiment with
that app containerization tool.
You can do all of this with, say, an Azure free account and use your
trial credit, and on your local machine if you've got Windows 10 or
Windows 11, you can use Client Hyper‑V.
I would strongly recommend, and frankly, you've got all the Docker tools that
you can install on Windows, Mac, and Linux. By doing this and understanding
how this technology actually works and realizing even on a small scale in a
test lab how beneficial containerization in microservices can be. I submit
this is immediately increasing your value to your employer because I wind up
seeing and working with a lot of businesses and customers around the world,
and a lot, I want to say most, I'll just say a lot, don't understand this
stuff.
So, this knowledge and these skills are worth their weight in gold.
All right, enough about that, get off your soapbox, Tim.
The lead for the final module in this course is, our local
Active Directory environment is a mess.
It's way too bloated.
Years ago, we thought that we had to completely isolate different
divisions, so we've got all these forests and a mess of different
trusts, we've got way too many domains.
You've been showing all these whizbang tools for Microsoft, what do they have to
help us with something like Active Directory consolidation?
Well, I've got good news and neutral news.
Well, the few bits,
the good, good news is that we've got just one module left of this
course, Migrate an AD DS Infrastructure to Windows Server 2022 AD DS.
Another bit of good news is that there is a tool.
The neutral news is that it's kind of old.
It's the Active Directory Migration toolset. So we'll
learn how to use that in the next module.
Thank you as always for your attention and participation. I'll see you then.