Azure

What you'll learn

• Organise Azure resources with tenants, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and tags.
• Secure access with Entra ID, least-privilege RBAC and managed identities instead of stored secrets.
• Choose between VMs, App Service, Container Apps, AKS and Functions for a workload.
• Pick storage tiers, redundancy, relational databases and Cosmos DB settings for durability and cost.
• Design VNets, private endpoints and the right load-balancing service.
• Deploy with Bicep and OIDC pipelines, monitor with KQL, and control security posture and spend.

Syllabus

Azure Foundations

1. What Azure Is and How It Is Laid Out
2. Tenants, Subscriptions and Resource Groups
3. Portal, CLI, PowerShell and Infrastructure as Code

Identity and Access

1. Microsoft Entra ID
2. Azure Role-Based Access Control
3. Managed Identities

Compute Choices

1. Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
2. Azure App Service
3. Containers: ACI, Container Apps and AKS

Serverless and Integration

1. Azure Functions
2. Service Bus, Event Grid and Event Hubs
3. API Management and Logic Apps

Storage and Databases

1. Storage Accounts, Tiers and Redundancy
2. Azure SQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
3. Azure Cosmos DB

Networking

1. Virtual Networks, Subnets and NSGs
2. Private Endpoints and DNS
3. Load Balancing Options

Infrastructure as Code, Delivery and Monitoring

1. Bicep Templates
2. CI/CD with GitHub Actions and OIDC
3. Azure Monitor, Application Insights and KQL

Security, Cost and Well-Architected Practice

1. Key Vault, Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud
2. Cost Management
3. The Azure Well-Architected Framework
4. Azure Revision and Interview Questions