Azure Cloud — Zero to Hero

Master Microsoft Azure with the Interactive Editor

Portal, CLI, ARM/Bicep, VMs, App Service, Functions, AKS, Cosmos DB, Redis, VNets, DevOps, Key Vault, Monitor — plus the real patterns enterprise teams ship: Entra ID + MSAL, Spring Boot resource servers, Service Bus, Azure Artifacts, Helm on AKS, and Key Vault at scale. 36 lessons with exercises and quizzes.

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Tier 1

Foundations

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Cloud concepts, the portal, CLI, ARM/Bicep, RBAC, cost, policy, tags.

Tier 2

Compute

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VMs, App Service, Functions, Container Instances, AKS, Logic Apps.

Tier 3

Storage & Data

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Blob, Table/Queue, Cosmos DB, SQL Database, Cache for Redis.

Tier 4

Networking

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VNets, NSGs, Load Balancer, App Gateway, DNS, custom domains.

Tier 5

DevOps & CI/CD

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Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Terraform, ACR.

Tier 6

Security & Monitoring

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Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Application Insights.

Tier 7

Production patterns

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Entra ID for SPA & Spring, Service Bus, Artifacts, Helm, Key Vault at scale.

Tier 8

Contoso Production Patterns

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The full real-world stack: pipeline-templates, VMSS agents, Service Bus, AKS multi-cluster, Istio + Argo Rollouts, terraform-common, Datadog APM, end-to-end deploy.

Tier 9

Reliability & Operations

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Health probes, SLOs & error budgets, distributed tracing, structured logging, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, multi-region failover, and a chaos-engineering capstone.

Tier 10

Infrastructure as Code — Deep Dive

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Author reusable Terraform modules, loop resources with for_each & dynamic blocks, and template Helm charts from values — then drill the commands in the Command Lab.

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Master Microsoft Azure with the Interactive Editor

Let’s figure it out.

Azure 1: Cloud Concepts & Azure Portal

Azure 2: Resource Groups & Subscriptions

Azure 3: Azure CLI Essentials

Azure 4: ARM Templates & Bicep

Azure 5: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Azure 6: Cost Management & Budgets

Azure 7: Azure Policy & Governance

Azure 8: Tags & Resource Organization

Azure 9: Virtual Machines

Azure 10: Azure App Service

Azure 11: Azure Functions (Serverless)

Azure 12: Container Instances

Azure 13: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure 14: Logic Apps & Workflow Automation

Azure 15: Blob Storage

Azure 16: Table Storage & Queue Storage

Azure 17: Azure Cosmos DB

Azure 18: Azure SQL Database

Azure 19: Azure Cache for Redis

Azure 20: Virtual Networks & Subnets

Azure 21: Network Security Groups (NSGs)

Azure 22: Load Balancer & Application Gateway

Azure 23: Azure DNS & Custom Domains

Azure 24: Azure DevOps Pipelines

Azure 25: GitHub Actions for Azure

Azure 26: Terraform on Azure

Azure 27: Azure Container Registry (ACR)

Azure 28: Azure Key Vault

Azure 29: Azure Monitor & Application Insights

Azure 30: Cloud Architecture - Putting It All Together

Azure 31: Entra ID & MSAL.js — SPA Authentication

Azure 32: Entra ID + Spring Boot — Resource Server

Azure 33: Service Bus — Topics, Queues & Dead-Letter

Azure 34: Azure Artifacts — Private Package Feeds

Azure 35: Helm on AKS — Values Overlays

Azure 36: Key Vault Integration at Scale — Pipeline, CSI, App Service

Azure 37: YAML Pipeline Templates — the `extends` + `parameters` pattern

Azure 38: Variable Groups & Service Connections — the secret backbone

Azure 39: GitVersion → image tag → chart version

Azure 40: Multi-Registry Docker Build & Push — the loop pattern

Azure 41: Self-Hosted ADO Build Agents on VMSS — pipeline-agents

Azure 42: Service Bus Topics with terraform-common Publisher/Subscriber

Azure 43: AKS Multi-Cluster Topology — apps + elasticsearch

Azure 44: Helm Universal Charts — api | headless | cron | frontend

Azure 45: Istio VirtualService + DestinationRule for canary

Azure 46: Argo Rollouts canary steps + Analysis

Azure 47: Environment Rollout Strategies — dev=direct, uat=optional canary, prod=canary+promote

Azure 48: Per-Service Key Vault naming — `{service}-{abbrev}-kv-{env}`

Azure 49: PostgreSQL Flexible Server per-service + Liquibase auxiliary images

Azure 50: Azure Artifacts npm feed — `@contoso/react` (Lib)

Azure 51: Azure Artifacts Maven/Gradle — `ado_artifacts_token` for backend libs

Azure 52: AzureKeyVault@2 chained with Helm `--set secrets`

Azure 53: Terraform plan/apply with exit-code-2 gating

Azure 54: createprodcr — ADO Change Request work items for prod

Azure 55: Front Door + APIM + AKS Ingress — north-south traffic path

Azure 56: End-to-end deploy — from `git push v1.5.0` to canary promote in prod

Azure 57: Datadog APM wired through the universal chart

Azure 58: AAD App Registrations via terraform-common

Azure 59: Standardized resource tagging — `terraform-common/azure/tags`

Azure 60: Multi-Component Services — `services[]` + `auxiliaryImages[]`

Azure 61: Health Probes — Liveness, Readiness & Startup

Azure 62: SLOs, SLIs & Error Budgets

Azure 63: Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Azure 64: Structured Logging & Dashboards

Azure 65: Retries, Timeouts & Circuit Breakers

Azure 66: Multi-Region Failover & Traffic Manager

Azure 67: Capstone — Chaos Engineering & a Resilience Scorecard

Azure 68: Terraform Module Authoring

Azure 69: Terraform for_each & dynamic blocks

Azure 70: Helm Chart Templating

Master Microsoft Azure with the Interactive Editor

Let’s figure it out.

Azure 1: Cloud Concepts & Azure Portal

Azure 2: Resource Groups & Subscriptions

Azure 3: Azure CLI Essentials

Azure 4: ARM Templates & Bicep

Azure 5: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Azure 6: Cost Management & Budgets