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Microsoft Azure Complete Course

Master Azure for DevOps from tenants, subscriptions, Entra ID, networking, compute, storage, databases, containers, and serverless through Bicep/ARM, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, observability, security, governance, resilience, and FinOps.

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58chapters

290lessons

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Course brief

A comprehensive Microsoft Azure curriculum for DevOps engineers building governed, automated, observable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud platforms.

This course is organized as a progressive operational curriculum. Lesson files are reserved in the repository structure so future content can be added without changing URLs or navigation.

By the end

You will be able to

Design Azure tenants, subscriptions, identity, networking, compute, storage, and application platforms
Automate infrastructure using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, Azure CLI, and PowerShell
Build CI/CD with Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, artifacts, and deployment environments
Operate workloads with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Policy, and Defender
Apply Azure Well-Architected, landing-zone, resilience, security, and FinOps practices

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Microsoft Azure Complete Course

A comprehensive Microsoft Azure curriculum for DevOps engineers building governed, automated, observable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud platforms.

You will be able to

58 chapters in prerequisite order.

Azure Foundations, Global Infrastructure, Regions, Availability Zones, and Shared Responsibility

Tenants, Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Resources, and Hierarchy

Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, and Authentication

Microsoft Entra ID Foundations, Users, Groups, Applications, Service Principals, and Tenants

Azure RBAC, Role Definitions, Assignments, Scope, Deny Assignments, and Least Privilege

Managed Identities, Workload Identity Federation, OIDC, and Passwordless Automation

Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management Concepts, and Administrative Security

Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, Policy Baselines, and Subscription Vending

Virtual Networks, Address Spaces, Subnets, Routes, and Network Design

Network Security Groups, Application Security Groups, Flow Logs, and Segmentation

Public IPs, NAT Gateway, Azure Firewall, Route Tables, and Controlled Egress

VNet Peering, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute Concepts, and Hybrid Networking

Private Link, Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints, and Private DNS

Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, Front Door, CDN Concepts, and Global Routing

Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, WAF, and Layer-4/7 Delivery

Virtual Machines, Images, Extensions, Managed Disks, and Compute Lifecycle

Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Autoscaling, Availability Sets/Zones, and Resilient Compute

Azure Bastion, Serial Console, Run Command, and Secure Administrative Access

Storage Accounts, Blob, Files, Queues, Tables, Redundancy, and Lifecycle

Managed Disks, Snapshots, Azure Files, NetApp Files Concepts, and Data Services

Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance Concepts, HA, Backups, and Operations

Azure Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL Concepts, Flexible Server, Backups, and Networking

Cosmos DB, Partitioning, Consistency, Global Distribution, and Operational Patterns

Azure Cache for Redis/Managed Redis Concepts, Caching, HA, and Application Patterns

Azure Container Registry, Repositories, Tasks, Geo-Replication, and Supply Chain

Azure Container Apps, Revisions, Scaling, Dapr Concepts, and Serverless Containers

Azure Kubernetes Service Architecture, Nodes, Node Pools, Add-ons, and Operations

AKS Networking, Azure CNI, Load Balancing, Ingress/Gateway, and Private Clusters

AKS Identity, Workload Identity, RBAC, Key Vault CSI, Policy, and Security

AKS Scaling, Cluster Autoscaler, KEDA, Upgrades, Maintenance, and Reliability

Azure Functions, Triggers, Bindings, Hosting Plans, Scaling, and Serverless Delivery

API Management, Gateways, Policies, Authentication, Rate Limits, and API Operations

Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Messaging, Streaming, and Event-Driven Architecture

Logic Apps and Durable Functions Concepts for Workflow Orchestration

ARM Templates, Resource Manager, Deployments, What-If, and Deployment Modes

Bicep Fundamentals, Modules, Parameters, Outputs, Loops, Conditions, and Registries

Deployment Stacks, Template Specs, Bicep Registries, and Reusable Infrastructure

Terraform on Azure, azurerm Provider, State, Modules, Identity, and Enterprise Patterns

Azure DevOps Organizations, Projects, Repos, Boards, Artifacts, and Service Connections

Azure Pipelines YAML, Agents, Stages, Jobs, Templates, Variables, and Artifacts

Azure Pipelines Environments, Approvals, Checks, Deployment Jobs, and Strategies

GitHub Actions for Azure, OIDC, Environments, Reusable Workflows, and Deployment

Azure Artifacts, ACR, Package Feeds, Promotion, Retention, and Supply Chain

Key Vault, Secrets, Keys, Certificates, RBAC, Rotation, and Application Integration

Azure Monitor Metrics, Logs, Alerts, Action Groups, and Workbooks

Log Analytics, KQL Foundations, Tables, Queries, and Operational Investigation

Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, Dependencies, and APM

Managed Prometheus, Managed Grafana, Container Insights, and AKS Observability

Activity Log, Diagnostic Settings, Resource Logs, and Centralized Audit

Azure Policy, Initiatives, Effects, Remediation, and Governance as Code

Defender for Cloud, Security Posture, Workload Protection, and DevSecOps

Microsoft Sentinel Concepts, SIEM/SOAR, Analytics Rules, Automation, and Incidents

Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Recovery Services Vaults, and Disaster Recovery

Reliability, Availability Zones, Paired Regions, Deployment Stamps, and Multi-Region Design

Azure Well-Architected Framework: Reliability, Security, Cost, Operational Excellence, and Performance

Cost Management, Budgets, Reservations, Savings Plans, Advisor, Tags, and FinOps

Platform Engineering, Azure Deployment Environments Concepts, Golden Paths, and Self-Service

Production Capstone: Build, Secure, Deliver, Observe, Govern, Scale, and Recover an Azure Platform

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